linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] U6715 16550A serial driver support

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Date:	Thu, 5 Aug 2010 16:04:35 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Philippe Langlais <philippe.langlais@...ricsson.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Ludovic BARRE <ludovic.barre@...ricsson.com>,
	Vincent GUITTOT <vincent.guittot@...ricsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] U6715 16550A serial driver support

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:22:06AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:14:40 +0200 Philippe Langlais <philippe.langlais@...ricsson.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >>      
> > > The patch adds these .set_termios hooks but doesn't actually use them
> > > for anything.
> > >
> > > The changelog doesn't tell us _why_ this was done (it should) and
> > > lacking any code to look at it's all a bit mysterious.
> > >
> > >    
> > This feature is used in our U6715 8250 platform serial driver, to avoid
> > hack in 8250.c set_termios (Alan Cox requirement).
> > In this driver the input uart clock frequency depends on baud rate and
> > is computed in our set_termios override function.
> > The U6715 paltform serial patch has been submitted on linux-arm mailing 
> > list,
> > and is ready to enter Russell King Linux tree.
> 
> Oh.
> 
> > More things to do ?
> 
> Update the changelog to include this rather important information.
> 
> As the patches are dependent, treat them as a single series.  Russell
> can merge them both with Greg's ack or Greg can merge them both with
> Russell's ack.

I've dropped the patch from my tree, so send it through Russell's, with
the proper changelog change and:
	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

thanks,

greg k-h
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