On 07/22/2015 12:06 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

While I stumbled over the calls to gpiod_get variants in the etraxfs
serial driver I noticed several problems with that driver. I pointed
them out in

        http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg17794.html

. If you read the follow-ups Jesper Nilsson then said:

        I can push a patch that just drops all signal handling (since
        it's bogus ATM), or you can ignore the driver as currently
        implemented.


If you want to mark the driver as BROKEN due to those other problems,
go ahead, and I'll drop the architecture from my tests. But it should
not be marked BROKEN because you did not update an API.

I explicitly did the latter. Apart from that single driver I fixed all
users. @Jesper: You said you poked Niklas to care for that. Any news
from that front?

I'm all for the usual habit that API changes should be handled by the
API changer. But if the code was already relying on undefined behaviour
before the change and fixing that needs testing on the respective
hardware, I think pushing the needed work back to the driver owner is
fine. IMHO a simple build fix that doesn't fix the brokeness isn't that
helpful here.

The driver works fine for me (in qemu), possibly because qemu doesn't
use/need modem lines.

Guenter

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