Dear Allen Martin,
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Good, now please fix the bug. I'm terribly unhappy seeing there is a bug that is about to go unfixed.
I didn't say the bug will go unfixed, I've opened an issue in our internal bug tracker so it doesn't go forgotten. It's just a matter of prioritization.
Yes, the bug is really simple to fix, so instead of arguing, please get to work. It could have been fixed already!
It's just not important to fix a corner case bug
I'm sorry, I really need to be careful with wording here. I'm always baffled how an engineer can ignore a bug.
in a driver that noone outside of NVIDIA can actually use when there are major functionality holes and regressions (like your change to serial_assign() that broke serial output on tegra).
Stop being personal, this hurts and doesn't help. Care to send a patch for this? I don't have a working tegra setup (yet), but you can test this. I already outlined the fix, so it's just a matter to implement it.
I only work on u-boot on the side, so I have to pick my battles carefully.
I'm glad for any contribution from your end, don't be mistaken. I really appreciate it, sorry if my working is sometimes way too blunt or heartless.
-Allen
Best regards, Marek Vasut