From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755340AbaIHXqW (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:46:22 -0400 Received: from mailout32.mail01.mtsvc.net ([216.70.64.70]:50102 "EHLO n23.mail01.mtsvc.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752856AbaIHXqV (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:46:21 -0400 Message-ID: <540E3FC6.2010503@hurleysoftware.com> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:46:14 -0400 From: Peter Hurley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Jiri Slaby , One Thousand Gnomes , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] tty/serial flow control fixes References: <1409693975-1028-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <20140908232445.GA28204@kroah.com> <540E3CDF.8020607@hurleysoftware.com> <20140908234324.GA14132@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20140908234324.GA14132@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: 990527 peter@hurleysoftware.com X-MT-ID: 8FA290C2A27252AACF65DBC4A42F3CE3735FB2A4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/08/2014 07:43 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:33:51PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: >> On 09/08/2014 07:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:39:09PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: >>>> Hi Greg, >>>> >>>> This patch series reworks the internals of tty and serial flow control to >>>> fix multiple races in both START/STOP flow control and RTS/CTS flow control. >>>> >>>> The main changes in this series are: >>>> Patch 1 >>>> Backs out the UPF_HARD_FLOW kludge for 8250. This revert should be >>>> for mainline and -next >>>> >>>> Patches 3-7 >>>> Fixes to x_char handling (ie., sending START/STOP) both in the serial >>>> core and to several UART drivers >>>> >>>> Patches 10-15 >>>> Rename and move ASYNC_CTS_FLOW and ASYNC_CHECK_CD statuses into >>>> a private field for the serial core, and add helper functions to test >>>> those statuses for UART drivers. >>>> >>>> This is a necessary step toward making tty port->flags SMP-safe, without >>>> introducing a new lock. >>> >>> I stopped applying at patch 13, due to the objections to that patch. >>> Please redo the rest of the series and resend. >> >> I'm going to wait for the fallout from patch 21 to shake out first. > > Why, the earlier patches in this series should be ok to go, right? They > don't depend on 21 to be "correct". Oh, you want me to redo just 14 through 20, and resend that? Regards, Peter Hurley