Re: [PATCH] serial: dw8250: Make DLF feature independent of ADDITIONAL_FEATURE

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Dec 05 2023 - 10:55:58 EST


On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 09:55:44AM +0800, Dawei Li wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 03:29:35PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 03:20:09PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2023, Dawei Li wrote:

...

> > > The very same code change is already in tty-next (from another author).
> >
> > For your convenience:
> >
> > d804987153e7 ("serial: 8250_dw: Decouple DLF register check from UCV")
>
> [sigh]
>
> Apparently I thought tty/for-linus is the "bug fixing" branch for tty by
> mistake, and didn't realize the same fix patch has been landed in tty-next
> for a while.
>
> Thanks for the update.
>
> Anyway, I believe the fixing patch should cc stable and be getting backported?
> I hit the bug on 5.10.x, it's possible the bug has been there before that.

When that commit meets upstream you can always resend it for stable. The process
is documented.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko