Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758913AbYHZRpq (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:45:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757365AbYHZRph (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:45:37 -0400 Received: from smtp121.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.94]:34371 "HELO smtp121.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757273AbYHZRpg (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:45:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=X0P1T06nLsrD0is/XVgf9jGjUKPtRwT5AppIu5qoNijHDSjFsr0Kt8eGTvS4FZbkFvRUwtMTHVhfiNf7jnUNUm5WAGj9GiJOMzf3Ssv22OWxEjTMAZ6rTWfelL317KQY6FaWDftg6FR6EvZ6jUCdjX3AoccCU7hEEFpjrMjYdpo= ; X-YMail-OSG: HWgry2oVM1mswubyToQzF3I9O1cQasAtr2wPhdOGP4tOkzAVRAMKkEwB20QqbzeWc.Ols.156LGI1hyPlCNwVZPUgnUuCHm1_dOaTyT.Jg-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial 8250: tighten test for using backup timer Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:45:34 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: lkml , Alex Williamson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808261045.34699.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1530 Lines: 30 > > Also, how serious is the problem which is being fixed here? It > > _sounds_ like it's of the "fatal for people who have that hardware" > > variety, in which case we should get this into 2.6.27 and probably > > 2.6.26.x. Not sure about 2.5.26.x though - the patch doesn't apply > > there, but I didn't check whether this is due to functional changes. > > For users of this version of this particular UART IP it is fatal. From > looking at the git history it looks like the original patch went into > 2.6.26 so it might also affect that kernel. Second that: serial-8250-tighten-test-for-using-backup-timer.patch (from MMOTM) in mainline sooner-not-later seems right. My own exposure to this is that the UART on DaVinci hardware, which TI allegedly derived from its original 16550 logic, has periodically gone from working to unusable with the mainline 8250.c ... and back and forth a bunch. Currently it's "unusable", a regression from some previous versions. With this patch from Alex, it's usable. Of course there are a bunch of arch/arm/mach-davinci patches needed to make that platform more functional in mainline. I expect they'll probably merge in the 2.6.28-rc0 window. Meanwhile, running out of ramdisk with a serial console should at least work right! :) - Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/