Re: [000/152] 2.6.36.3-stable review

Alan Cox
2011-01-06T13:45:26Z

On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:25:00 -0800
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> 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 <yegor_sub1@visionsystems.de>
> 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 <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Has been bisected by several people to be causing failures and reported ?