linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] serdev: ttyport: do not used keyed wakeup in write

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Message-ID: <20171128151629.GA8177@localhost>
Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:16:29 +0100
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] serdev: ttyport: do not used keyed wakeup in
 write_wakeup

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 04:04:18PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 03:30:59PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Serdev does not use the file abstraction and specifically there will
> > never be anyone polling a file descriptor for POLLOUT events.
> > 
> > Just use plain wake_up_interruptible() in the write_wakeup callback and
> > document why it's there.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> This patch didn't apply, perhaps because I split this series across my
> "for-next" and "for-linus" branches?

That's right, this one depends on patch 4/8.

Perhaps you can take also this one through tty-linus? Or even better,
just take the whole series through tty-linus?

Johan