linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: speakup: Fix getting port information

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Date:	Sat, 02 Jan 2016 20:31:11 -0500
From:	covici@....covici.com
To:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@...il.com>,
	Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>,
	Kirk Reiser <kirk@...sers.ca>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	speakup@...ux-speakup.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: speakup: Fix getting port information

Well, OK with me, I will use yours instead because I don't know if they
will backport the thing, thanks so much for doing this.

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org> wrote:

> covici@....covici.com, on Sat 02 Jan 2016 19:10:36 -0500, wrote:
> > I had a patch which also worked, but yours may be better -- I enclose it
> > here for your information.
> 
> Well, it's not up to serialio.h to include things for serialio.c. That
> however makes me realize that the culprit is actually
> f79b0d9 (which actually doesn't make much sense since linux/serial.h is
> getting included a couple of lines above...).
> 
> I don't know what this "use <linux/serial.h> instead <asm/serial.h>"
> warning is about, but *no* header in include/ includes asm/serial.h, so
> there is no way to get the SERIAL_PORT_DFNS definition just by including
> linux/serial.h, we really need asm/serial.h, just like 8250*.c do.
> 
> So we really need serialio.c to include linux/serial_core.h then
> asm/serial.h, as my patch does.
> 
> Samuel
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> 

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