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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901051317450.3057@localhost.localdomain> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:21:45 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, fweisbec@...il.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > ok I had that enabled somehow.... Well, it's not just "somehow". It's the x86 def_config value, and it's also the default in at least the Fedora kernels. Probably for a very good - although these days probably historical - reason: on older hardware, it really wasn't all that unusual to have the serial port at other interrupts. And Alan may point to the help text, but that doesn't really matter since everybody clearly ignores it, and it's not what has been tested. But yeah, we probably should disable it at least for modern machines. And even if it doesn't autodetect the irq, "setserial" hopefully still does work (and was always required for some machines anyway) Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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