Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] serial: Add uart_xmit_advance() + fixes part (of a larger patch series)

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Sep 01 2022 - 10:00:21 EST


On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:19:40PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2022, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>
> > Add uart_xmit_advance() helper to handle circular xmit buffer
> > advancement + accounting of Tx'ed bytes. Use it to fix a few drivers
> > that previously lacked to accounting for DMA Tx.
> >
> > Greg,
> > I've a another series on top this which is tty-next material making the
> > rest of the drivers to use uart_xmit_advance(). That series obviously
> > depends on the patch 1/3 of this series so if you end up putting these
> > 3 patches into tty-linus, I'll need it to be merged into tty-next at
> > some point (I'm not in a big hurry with this so if you choose to delay
> > the merge, it's not a big deal).
>
> This merge, btw, is no longer that important because I agreed with Jiri to
> wait for his tx loop rewrite series.

Ok, I'll drop this series for now.

thanks,

greg k-h