From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754222Ab1AFWTV (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:19:21 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:55678 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751988Ab1AFWTU (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:19:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 13:57:05 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [000/152] 2.6.36.3-stable review Message-ID: <20110106215705.GA30799@suse.de> References: <20110106002500.GA3172@kroah.com> <20110106134254.68fa27ac@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110106134254.68fa27ac@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:42:54PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:25:00 -0800 > Greg KH wrote: > > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.36.3 release. > > There are 152 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > > let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and > > wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it. > > Look sane on first glance but we don't seem to have a revert for the > serial mess up yet ? > > > 7a56aa45982bb87bfca98a2832b5ae782c03364a is the first bad commit > > commit 7a56aa45982bb87bfca98a2832b5ae782c03364a > > Author: Yegor Yefremov > > Date: Wed Jun 16 16:29:55 2010 +0200 > > > > serial: add UART_CAP_EFR and UART_CAP_SLEEP flags to 16C950 UARTs > > definition > > > > Adding UART_CAP_EFR and UART_CAP_SLEEP flags will enable sleep > > mode > > and automatic CTS flow control for 16C950 UARTs. It will also > > avoid > > capabilities detection warning like this: > > > > "ttyS0: detected caps 00000700 should be 00000100" > > > > Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > Has been bisected by several people to be causing failures and reported ? Hm, I saw Pavel reported a problem, but I didn't get a definate "this must be reverted" resolution from that thread. It looked like we should just drop one of these flags perhaps? I can revert it if it really is an issue, but it needs to be reverted in Linus's tree first, before going to stable. thanks, greg k-h