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. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
