Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] serial: Add uart_xmit_advance() + fixes part (of a larger patch series)

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 05:15:11PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2022, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:19:40PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2022, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Add uart_xmit_advance() helper to handle circular xmit buffer
> > > > advancement + accounting of Tx'ed bytes. Use it to fix a few drivers
> > > > that previously lacked to accounting for DMA Tx.
> > > > 
> > > > Greg,
> > > > I've a another series on top this which is tty-next material making the
> > > > rest of the drivers to use uart_xmit_advance(). That series obviously
> > > > depends on the patch 1/3 of this series so if you end up putting these
> > > > 3 patches into tty-linus, I'll need it to be merged into tty-next at
> > > > some point (I'm not in a big hurry with this so if you choose to delay
> > > > the merge, it's not a big deal).
> > > 
> > > This merge, btw, is no longer that important because I agreed with Jiri to 
> > > wait for his tx loop rewrite series.
> > 
> > Ok, I'll drop this series for now.
> 
> It's not what I meant.
> 
> I've a follow-up series on top of this which depeds on uart_xmit_advance() 
> being available (thus I'd have need it in tty-next). However, now I'm 
> postponing the follow-up series while Jiri sorts out the tx loops.
> 
> This first part of the series and Jiri's tx loop series don't even touch 
> the same files.
> 
> I guess I should resend these if you dropped these from your queue?

Yes please, sorry, I was confused.

greg k-h