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Date:	Sat, 7 Mar 2015 03:43:50 +0100
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ZIV-Asier Llano Palacios <asier.llano@...lobal.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] TTY: fix tty_wait_until_sent on 64-bit machines

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 10:39:02AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> This series fixes an overflow bug in tty_wait_until_sent, which is
> currently broken on 64-bit machines for most TTY drivers (with
> serial-core being the notable exception).
> 
> The final patch makes the tty_wait_until_sent timeout a maximum one so
> that we actually honour the closing-wait timeout.
> 
> All but the second (clean-up) and final patch are marked for stable.
> 
> These patches are for v4.0 and I suggest Greg takes them all through the
> TTY tree.

Nice fixes, all now queued up.
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