linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [usb-serial] fix Ooops on uplug

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0907221843560.21938-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:45:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [usb-serial] fix Ooops on uplug

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote:

> At the moment I have two main goals
> 
> - Get to the point where every serial port in the system contains a tty
>   port
> - Remove the 10 million alternative mis-implementations of half the tty
>   code found in each driver or in "glue" that does what the tty layer
>   should be doing (half of usb-serial, most of the uart layer)
> 
> All without being able to just break it for six months and drop support
> for most of the hardware.

Okay.  If there's anything more I can do to help with updating
usb-serial, let me know.

Alan Stern

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