Re: [PATCH 8/8] serdev: ttyport: do not used keyed wakeup in write_wakeup

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:48:02AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 08:39:26PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 04:16:29PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 04:04:18PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 03:30:59PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > > > Serdev does not use the file abstraction and specifically there will
> > > > > never be anyone polling a file descriptor for POLLOUT events.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Just use plain wake_up_interruptible() in the write_wakeup callback and
> > > > > document why it's there.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c | 3 ++-
> > > > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > > This patch didn't apply, perhaps because I split this series across my
> > > > "for-next" and "for-linus" branches?
> > > 
> > > That's right, this one depends on patch 4/8.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps you can take also this one through tty-linus? Or even better,
> > > just take the whole series through tty-linus?
> > 
> > They all didn't feel like patches to go in after -rc1, right?
> > Documentation updates?  Minor tweaks?  Would you want to defend them?
> > :)
> 
> I agree that it's borderline, but the documentation update (patch 3/8)
> is related to the first two bug fixes, where a negative return value
> from a serdev driver could have triggered those bugs, so in a sense we
> are fixing the docs.
> 
> Patch 6 and 8 are clean ups, but the open lock clean up in patch 6 is
> related to the close lock fix in patch 5.
> 
> Patch 7 avoids a potential crash, albeit something that would not affect
> any mainline drivers (as serial-core sets CLOCAL by default).
> 
> But I'm perfectly fine with holding them off for 4.16. Perhaps you can
> just merge back rc2 and I can resubmit the final patch which didn't
> apply after that.

I've "merged back" now, care to resend the remaining patches?

thanks,

greg k-h