Re: IP22 doesn't shutdown properly

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:22:57PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> [2006-02-24 20:05]:
> > > This patch was dropped when a real fix went into one of the sun serial
> > > drivers with which this issue was seen before.  Please look through
> > > the drivers/serial/sun* changelogs and see what fix needs to be
> > > ported to the ip22zilog driver.
> > 
> > Ralf suggested to see what other changes have been made to the
> > sunzilog driver recently and update the ip22zilog driver accordingly.
> > Russell, please queue the following patch for 2.6.17.
> 
> Any chance they can be merged, to avoid such missed updates in the future?

I'm somewhat pessimistic on mergin.  I don't have a Sparc to test this and
in the past it didn't happen either - instead the kernel was living with
a bucketload of Zilog UART drivers.  Yet it's something that really should
be done.

  Ralf