On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:53:54PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:25:47PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Since forever this driver has had IXON and IXOFF mixed up, and has used
> > the latter rather than the former to enable hardware-assisted software
> > flow control on output.

> Ugh, that's a huge sign that no one actually uses IXON/IXOFF anymore :(

Could be that some applications set both IXON and IXOFF "just to be
safe"; that appears to be the case with minicom at least.

> Anyway, thanks for fixing this up, should also probably be backported to
> the stable kernels.

I considered that, but since its a change in behaviour I figured it was
best that anyone affected hits this with a major (minor?) kernel version
update (rather than a stable update). But I'll add a stable tag if you
think it's warranted?

> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Thanks for the review.

Johan
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