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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:36:32 +0000 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> 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, 24 Mar 2009 22:29:34 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:18:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:43:21 +0000 > > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote: > > > So this patch breaks the case where a kernel with PNP support is booted > > > on a system without PNP-listed serial ports? Do we know the ratio of > > > machines fixed by this compared to the machines broken? > > > > Well the original patch came from Red Hat so perhaps they can provide > > data based on their userbase ? > > I'd prefer not to go with this approach unless we've got a convincing > number of bugs filed. It's guaranteed to reduce hardware support in > favour of fixing an unknown number of machines. I get a regular stream of complaints. But as I said Red Hat is the patch originator, Red Hat has the distro bugzilla so perhaps Red Hat folks can comment ? Alan -- 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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