linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb_serial: Stop passing NULL to functions that expect data

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:01:55 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb_serial: Stop passing NULL to functions that expect
 data

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:52:48 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:08:40 +0100
> Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Earlier patches have removed the checking for old v new differences from
> > the USB drivers so we can now pass in a valid blank old termios so that
> > we don't to fill the drivers with magic hacks for console support
> 
> Are all the prerequisites for these patches in mainline, or are there
> dependencies on -mm stuff here?

Sorry pre-req for the USB serial ones is the tty patch I sent you last
chunk that added tty_encode_baud_rate

I'd prefer them to sit in -mm a bit. I'm pretty sure most of them are
100% solid but I also want to see if we get any app breakages caused
by correcting our behaviour

Alan
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