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Message-Id: <1255490790.2347.31.camel@pasglop>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:26:30 +1100
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Michael Reed <mreed10@...ibm.com>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250_pci: Add IBM Saturn serial card
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 19:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:40:53 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > The IBM Saturn serial card has only one port. Without that fixup,
> > the kernel thinks it has two, which confuses userland setup and
> > admin tools as well.
> >
>
> That sounds seriousish. I assume it's a long-standing problem, but we
> only just noticed it?
No it's a brand new piece of HW we haven't released yet :-)
> I'll cc -stable because it's so simple ;)
Heh, thanks. We need it into distro indeed.
> > Andrew & Others on CC... not sure who takes care of patches to
> > that driver nowadays. Should I send directly to Linus ?
>
> I'll grab them if I see them, especially simple ones. Sometimes Alan
> grabs them too.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Ben.
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