From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Je Yen Tam <je.yen.tam@ni.com>
Cc: "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] serial/8250: Add support for NI-Serial PXI/PXIe+485 devices
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 10:15:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190704081500.GA6438@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MN2PR04MB59207BEC9DBAB5E69656DD42B7FA0@MN2PR04MB5920.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 07:55:33AM +0000, Je Yen Tam wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 12:24:35AM -0700, jeyentam wrote:
> > > Add support for NI-Serial PXIe-RS232, PXI-RS485 and PXIe-RS485 devices.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: jeyentam <je.yen.tam@ni.com>
> >
> > I need a "full" name here please.
>
> Ok, will do so.
>
> >
> > Also, this patch breaks the build, which is not allowed, and makes me wonder how
> > you tested it :(
>
> I've tested my changes with the steps as follows, it did not break.
>
> 1. Clone the Linux repo, check out the source and work on my project.
> 2. Compile the kernel source with "make j4".
> 3. Build the kernel modules with "make modules_install".
> 4. Install the kernel with "make install".
> 5. Reboot into the newly built kernel.
> 6. The kernel worked well and able to fit my needs.
>
> Noted that my source is checked out from the latest Linux kernel 5.2.0-rc6.
>
> Also, I checked my patch using checkpatch.pl, it did not show any errors and
> warnings too.
>
> May I know what do you mean by breaking the build?
If you only apply patch 1/2, the build breaks as you add new device ids
in the second patch. At every individual patch, you can not break the
build.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-04 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-03 7:24 [PATCH V2 1/2] serial/8250: Add support for NI-Serial PXI/PXIe+485 devices jeyentam
2019-07-03 8:42 ` Greg KH
2019-07-04 7:55 ` Je Yen Tam
2019-07-04 8:15 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-07-04 8:20 ` Je Yen Tam
2019-07-03 13:27 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-07-03 14:47 ` Greg KH
2019-07-03 15:41 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-07-03 15:59 ` Greg KH
2019-07-04 18:17 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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