linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250

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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:58:12 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
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,
	williams@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:36:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:29:34 +0000
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:
> > 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 ?

I've had a dig through Bugzilla but couldn't find it, and it doesn't 
seem to be in anything we're shipping right now. Clark, do you have a 
pointer to a bug that this patch came from?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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