Re: èå: [PATCH] usb: serial: update CH34x driver in drivers/usb/serial

[Johan Hovold]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:19:26AM +0100, Aidan Thornton wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:03:48AM +0100, Aidan Thornton wrote:
> >>
> >> It looks like someone by the name of Grigori Goronzy (CCed) had a patch series
> >> or four attempting to do this that just never went anywhere like all the other
> >> attempts. Might be worth someone talking to him or looking at his patches.
> >
> > Do you have a pointer to those patches on the mailing list?  Why were
> > they rejected?
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/15/849
> Not entirely sure. I think mainly some quibble with an unrelated
> resume issue in the first patch and some objection to RTS/CTS and B0
> handling for it being in separate patches, but but there's 13 patches
> in the series, four revisions of it, and probably other issues waiting
> to be discovered by the next fool who tries to resubmit them.

The patches were going through the normal review process. Anyone with
access to hardware should be able to complete that series in a few
hours. The four revisions had more to do with new versions being posted
quickly (or initially to the serial list) IIRC.

Johan