linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] TTY: switch flipping functions to tty

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:44:24 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, alan@...ux.intel.com,
	jirislaby@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] TTY: switch flipping functions to tty_port

On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 14:37 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 01/16/2013 07:47 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:53:00PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >> In this series we get rid of the tty_port_tty_get in most hot paths as
> >> all the flipping functions needs to know is in tty_port already. This
> >> simplifies the code at some places a lot.
> >>
> >> Two fixes for coverity issues are included.
> > 
> > All applied, but the drivers/staging/sb105x/ driver is now broken, can
> > you send me a follow-on patch to fix it?
> 
> I intentionally ignored that one as at the time of sending the patches,
> it was marked as BROKEN in -next. It is still broken, since it does not
> even have a tty_port for each port which is a requirement for a while
> already. That is also a prerequisite to fix the build failure.

What do I need to do to fix it?

> 
> Steven, do you have any plans with the driver? What is its planned destiny?

Well, I'm currently using the device in my main machine. As it is my
main box, I don't update the kernel as often.

Let me know what I need to do to fix it in the current kernel.

Thanks,

-- Steve


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