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Message-ID: <20090324213416.GA29507@srcf.ucam.org> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:34:16 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Panin <pazke@...pac.ru>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:26:53PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:59:47 +0000 > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:22:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > This patch looks very controversial from my POV. Now distro people must decide > > > > what to enable SERIAL_8250_PNP or SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE. And no matter what you > > > > > > They do already, otherwise your machine crashes at boot. > > > > We don't. The effect of this patch would be to silently disable 8250_PNP > > (since we don't build with CONFIG_EMBEDDED) and cause a surprising > > reduction in hardware support. How long has this been broken for? > > Since the conversion to drivers/serial - so years. So everyone using serial console with 8250_PNP enabled gets a crash on boot, and has done for years? Really? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org -- 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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