linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: pl011: Move uart_register

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Message-ID: <20140217235013.GD2669@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:50:13 +0900
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, jslaby@...e.cz,
	ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: pl011: Move uart_register_driver call to
 device probe

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 03:35:18PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:

> We've identified a correct working approach which is to simply add a
> CONFIG entry to the ARM tree and a few ifdefs to the problem drivers to
> make the "problem" (in fact a complete fictional non-problem) go away and
> to get rid of the mess over time completely as the drivers are set
> dynamic and it turns out that all the userspace happens to already handle
> this just fine.

It's a very real problem which affects actual kernels that distro style
users are building.

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