linux-kernel - Re: Fix serial

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Message-ID: <20080721222702.GA19033@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:27:02 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix serial_txx9 compile.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:00:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:16:59 -0400
 > Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > drivers/serial/serial_txx9.c: In function 'receive_chars':
 > > drivers/serial/serial_txx9.c:275: error: 'struct uart_info' has no member named 'tty'
 > 
 > Already fixed ages ago. Its in a patch that didn't get to Linus yet - see
 > the linux-next tree for the stuff pending.

Odd. This breakage happened with the merge in -git8
Why didn't the associated fixes go along with that merge ?
If it was fixed ages ago, that implies we knowingly merged broken code,
which seems suboptimal.  If nothing else, we're breaking bisectability
by merging in two batches.

	Dave

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