Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] tty: serial: Add UART driver for Cortina-Access platform

From: Alex Nemirovsky
Date: Tue Jun 15 2021 - 12:01:27 EST




> On Jun 15, 2021, at 8:40 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 02:33:57PM +0000, Alex Nemirovsky wrote:
>> Does the serial driver portion in the first patch, require any more changes from your point of view
>> as the serial driver maintainer? If there are no issues with the driver itself, we can engage with the DT team to figure out why they have not
>> ACK or provided any feedback on the DT portion. Are you good with the content of the serial driver itself minus the lack of ACK from the DT team?
>
> I was waiting for the DT review before I looked at the serial driver
> again.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Seems like we might be in a catch-22 situation here. This patch series has been in review around 6 months no and I have yet to see any feedback from the DT team.
Do you ever reach out to them to try to get closer? If you have had luck, perhaps you can send a quick email to them to get this driver off your plate. I’m sure you
would rather have this resolved on off your queue so you can have more time for other more important matters.