From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755866Ab0IPSpp (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:45:45 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:48433 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754070Ab0IPSpo (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:45:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:44:46 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drosenberg@vsecurity.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix the TIOCGICOUNT problem for good Message-ID: <20100916184446.GA8803@kroah.com> References: <20100916171747.25987.33573.stgit@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100916171747.25987.33573.stgit@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Remembering to clear fields is something driver authors are simply never > going to remember to get right every new driver. Instead take the problem > away from them and give them a simple interface to do the job. Looks good. But is it ok if I keep the one driver patch I have now for .36 and queue this up for .37? I'll handle the merge conflicts myself. thanks, greg k-h