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Message-ID: <20120906123136.GD29202@arwen.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:31:38 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, alan@...ux.intel.com,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM Kernel Mailing List 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	Shubhrajyoti Datta <shubhrajyoti@...com>,
	Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@...com>,
	Vikram Pandita <vikram.pandita@...com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 20/23] serial: omap: fix software flow control

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:27:49PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 01:33:00PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > From: Vikram Pandita <vikram.pandita@...com>
> > 
> > Software flow control register bits were not defined correctly.
> > 
> > Also clarify the IXON and IXOFF logic to reflect what userspace wants.
> > 
> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > Tested-by: Shubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti@...com>
> > Signed-off-by: Vikram Pandita <vikram.pandita@...com>
> > Signed-off-by: Shubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti@...com>
> > Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
> > Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
> > ---
> 
> If this is a stable patch, should it be pulled out and put also in for
> 3.6?

I'll leave that for Vikram to answer. Vikram, do you think this is
something so extreme that we _must_ apply it now, or can it wait for the
next merge window ?

I mean, I think this bug has been in the driver for a long time, right ?

-- 
balbi

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