[PATCH 0/2] tty: serial: OMAP: work around broken driver, IP block
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Sat Jan 21 07:55:22 EST 2012
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:27:37AM -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> [ This series is targeted for merging during v3.3-rc ]
>
> On v3.3-rc1, the OMAP serial console doesn't behave properly when
> power management is enabled (the default with omap2plus_defconfig).
> This seems to be due to a combination of a silicon bug in the UART IP
> block and broken FIFO settings in the OMAP serial driver.
>
> This patch series attempts to work around these problems. The workarounds
> are not perfect; see the patch descriptions for more details.
>
> Tested on OMAP3530 BeagleBoard. This series will need to be tested on
> OMAP2 and OMAP4 before it is ready to merge.
Who is going to do that testing? When? Why isn't it done already?
I guess this means I can ignore them for now, right?
greg k-h
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