linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] serial: Add uart_xmit_advance() + fixes part (of a larger patch series)

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Date:   Thu, 1 Sep 2022 16:00:09 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] serial: Add uart_xmit_advance() + fixes part (of
 a larger patch series)

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:19:40PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2022, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> 
> > Add uart_xmit_advance() helper to handle circular xmit buffer
> > advancement + accounting of Tx'ed bytes. Use it to fix a few drivers
> > that previously lacked to accounting for DMA Tx.
> > 
> > Greg,
> > I've a another series on top this which is tty-next material making the
> > rest of the drivers to use uart_xmit_advance(). That series obviously
> > depends on the patch 1/3 of this series so if you end up putting these
> > 3 patches into tty-linus, I'll need it to be merged into tty-next at
> > some point (I'm not in a big hurry with this so if you choose to delay
> > the merge, it's not a big deal).
> 
> This merge, btw, is no longer that important because I agreed with Jiri to 
> wait for his tx loop rewrite series.

Ok, I'll drop this series for now.

thanks,

greg k-h