2014-05-30 2:25 GMT+08:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman [off-list ref]:

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:14:02PM +0800, Barry Song wrote:

quoted

2014-05-29 18:13 GMT+08:00 Daniel Thompson [off-list ref]:

quoted

After 07d410e0) serial: sirf: fix spinlock deadlock issue it is no longer
possiblet to compile this driver. The rename of one of the spinlocks is
faulty. After looking at the original patch I believe this is the correct
fix.

Compile tested using ARM's multi_v7_defconfig

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <redacted>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Qipan Li <redacted>
Cc: linux-serial at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <redacted>

Qipan prepared a same patch to fix this.

Why didn't he send it?

it is not that he didn't want to send, it is because Daniel has sent
the same patch earlier.

-barry