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SubjectRe: [v3.9] [v3.10] [Regression] serial: 8250_pci: add support for another kind of NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller
On 07/01/2013 12:27 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 12:14:45PM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
>> Hi Wang,
>>
>> A bug was opened against the Ubuntu kernel[0]. After a kernel bisect,
>> it was found that reverting the following commit resolved this bug:
>>
>> commit 8d2f8cd424ca0b99001f3ff4f5db87c4e525f366
>> Author: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri Mar 1 11:47:20 2013 +0800
>>
>> serial: 8250_pci: add support for another kind of NetMos Technology
>> PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller
>>
>>
>> The regression was introduced as of v3.9-rc3 and still exists in the
>> current Mainline tree. It was also propagated to the stable trees.
>>
>> The patch causes the device to use the serial module instead of
>> parport_serial. Maybe the the quirk in ~drivers/pci/quirks.c
>> quirk_netmos() needs to be modified?
>>
>> I see that you are the author of this patch, so I wanted to run this by
>> you. I was thinking of requesting a revert, but I wanted to get your
>> feedback first.
> You missed the conversation we had about this already this weekend :)
>
> The offending patch has already been reverted and will propagate to the
> stable trees soon.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Good news. Thanks for the help, Greg!


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