From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
drosenberg@vsecurity.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix the TIOCGICOUNT problem for good
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:01:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100916230157.0c045cdd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100916184446.GA8803@kroah.com>
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:44:46 -0700
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Remembering to clear fields is something driver authors are simply never
> > going to remember to get right every new driver. Instead take the problem
> > away from them and give them a simple interface to do the job.
>
> Looks good. But is it ok if I keep the one driver patch I have now for
> .36 and queue this up for .37? I'll handle the merge conflicts myself.
Probably sensible given the closeness of .36 and the scale of changes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-16 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-16 17:21 Alan Cox
2010-09-16 17:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] tty: Make tiocgicount a handler Alan Cox
2010-09-16 17:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] tty: Convert the USB drivers to the new icount interface Alan Cox
2010-09-16 17:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] tty: icount changeover for other main devices Alan Cox
2010-09-16 18:44 ` [PATCH 0/3] Fix the TIOCGICOUNT problem for good Greg KH
2010-09-16 22:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-09-17 4:56 ` David Miller
2010-09-17 17:01 ` Greg KH
2010-09-18 15:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-20 8:31 ` Alan Cox
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