linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] serial: ar933x: Fix check for RS485 support

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Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2022 12:53:58 +0300 (EEST)
From:   Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>,
        linux-arm Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:SERIAL DRIVERS" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>, p.rosenberger@...bus.com,
        Lino Sanfilippo <l.sanfilippo@...bus.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] serial: ar933x: Fix check for RS485 support

On Mon, 4 Jul 2022, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
> On 03.07.22 20:39, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 7:02 PM Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Lino Sanfilippo <l.sanfilippo@...bus.com>
> >>
> >> Without an RTS GPIO RS485 is not possible so disable the support
> >> regardless of whether RS485 is enabled at boottime or not. Also remove the
> >
> > boot time
> >
> >> now superfluous check for the RTS GPIO in ar933x_config_rs485().
> >>
> >> Fixes: e849145e1fdd ("serial: ar933x: Fill in rs485_supported")
> >
> > Is it an independent fix? If so, it should be the first patch in the
> > series, otherwise if it's dependent on something from previous patches
> > you need to mark all of them as a fix.
> >
> 
> The fix is independent, patch 8 depends on the fix however. I was not
> aware of this fixes-first rule for series with patches that are independent
> from each other. I will change the order accordingly in the next version of the series.

While at it, you could separate just the fix to own patch and the 
->rs485_config() cleanup to own patch (or move it all to patch 8).

Not that this fix is expected to go anywhere else besides tty-next.

-- 
 i.