From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jslaby@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jirislaby@gmail.com, alan@linux.intel.com,
andrea@persephoneslair.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] NET: pc300, move to staging as it is broken
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:41:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120413174109.GA32536@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120413.133533.212991624580049561.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:35:33PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:14:57 +0200
>
> > It was marked as BROKEN back in 2008. It is because the tty handling
> > in the driver is really broken.
> >
> > There was some activity in January 2012 to fix the driver, but the
> > patch was commented to be bogus:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/29/160
> > and we have not heard back from the author since then:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/28/412
> >
> > So since nobody stepped in and rewrote the driver, it is time to move
> > it out of line now. And drop it some time later if nobody comes up
> > with patches to fix the driver in staging.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
>
> No objections, I'll let the staging guy handle this :-)
>
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thanks, I will :)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-13 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-11 9:14 Jiri Slaby
2012-04-11 9:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] TTY: con3215, add tty_port Jiri Slaby
2012-04-11 9:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] TTY: con3215, use tty from tty_port Jiri Slaby
2012-04-17 16:07 ` [PATCH] s390: fix build failure in con3215.c tty wakeup tasklet Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-17 16:14 ` Heiko Carstens
2012-04-13 17:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] NET: pc300, move to staging as it is broken David Miller
2012-04-13 17:41 ` Greg KH [this message]
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