On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:46:14PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 09/08/2014 07:43 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:33:51PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> >> On 09/08/2014 07:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:39:09PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> >>>> Hi Greg,
> >>>>
> >>>> This patch series reworks the internals of tty and serial flow control to
> >>>> fix multiple races in both START/STOP flow control and RTS/CTS flow 
> >>>> control.
> >>>>
> >>>> The main changes in this series are:
> >>>> Patch 1
> >>>>    Backs out the UPF_HARD_FLOW kludge for 8250. This revert should be
> >>>>    for mainline and -next
> >>>>
> >>>> Patches 3-7
> >>>>    Fixes to x_char handling (ie., sending START/STOP) both in the serial
> >>>>    core and to several UART drivers
> >>>>
> >>>> Patches 10-15
> >>>>    Rename and move ASYNC_CTS_FLOW and ASYNC_CHECK_CD statuses into
> >>>>    a private field for the serial core, and add helper functions to test
> >>>>    those statuses for UART drivers.
> >>>>
> >>>>    This is a necessary step toward making tty port->flags SMP-safe, 
> >>>> without
> >>>>    introducing a new lock.
> >>>
> >>> I stopped applying at patch 13, due to the objections to that patch.
> >>> Please redo the rest of the series and resend.
> >>
> >> I'm going to wait for the fallout from patch 21 to shake out first.
> > 
> > Why, the earlier patches in this series should be ok to go, right?  They
> > don't depend on 21 to be "correct".
> 
> Oh, you want me to redo just 14 through 20, and resend that?

Sure, might as well get those out of the way :)
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