linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: Move uart_register

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Message-ID: <20140123200509.GO11727@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:05:09 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Tomasz Figa <t.figa@...sung.com>,
	Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@...aro.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-samsung-soc <linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
	jslaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: Move uart_register_driver call to
 device probe

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 07:51:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> That strikes me as rather more risky. We can propogate it through the
> drivers as we are sure it is safe to do so on that platform and encourage
> driver authors to migrate. Better than a "big bang" and the inevitable
> fallout.

I don't see how we can meaningfully test this on a platform - the kernel
would have to be pretty demented to care, it's userspace that cares and
that's not really tied to individual serial drivers but is where we
mainly need coverage.

> We do want it user selectable, because we want people to leave it off
> unless they have a need for it - that then becomes a path towards
> eventually getting rid of them static identifiers for good.

Yup.

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