From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, arnd@arndb•de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of_serial: ignore unknown serial port
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:09:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe647387a21ec103882e7cf577d0d7d5@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18022.19709.50452.30370@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
>> Current of_serial driver assumes unknown serial port to be 8250. But
>> this behavior may cause fatal problems when the serial port is not
>> 8250. This patch corrects probe routine to ignore unknown serial port.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki@toshiba•co.jp>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
>
> Is this a bugfix that needs to go in 2.6.22?
This potentially breaks lots of other platforms, so no
please, put it in early in the next cycle and give those
others time to recover from this change.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-06 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 9:30 [PATCH] of_serial: ignore unknown serial port Ishizaki Kou
2007-05-31 10:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-06 5:58 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-06-06 9:09 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-06-06 13:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-06 13:44 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-06 9:28 ` kouish
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