Re: [PATCH 05/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: fix bug - serial porttransfer big file from host to target would have more lines

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Mar 06 2009 - 17:39:24 EST


On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:42:47 +0800
Bryan Wu <cooloney@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ignore receiving data if new position is in the same line of
> current buffer tail and small.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@xxxxxxxxxx>

Changelog fails to describe the bug which is being fixed, and fails to
describe the impact of that bug and fails to explain _why_ this change
is being made. I presently have no reason to merge this into 2.6.29.

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