linux-kernel - Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

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Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:27:08 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, jeff@...zik.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, arjan@...radead.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:01:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Hrm...  How badly is pl2303 broken?  I actually use that sucker, so if
> > it needs help - count me in.
> 
> 2303 is pretty good (in fact by usb serial standards outstanding). It has
> all the internal locking needed for now and right down to killing
> lock_kernel entirely outside of open/close (which is going to hit
> everything).
> 
> Only fixme I have tagged for it is
> 
> - if you set an unsupported baud rate it reports it set rather than the
> one you got
> 
> Which is a trivial mend for someone who has suitable docs (its marked
> FIXME: at the right spot)

I'll see what I can do about fixing this.

thanks,

greg k-h
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