Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753054AbaAWUFf (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:05:35 -0500 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:58760 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751293AbaAWUFd (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:05:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:05:09 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Alan Cox Cc: Tomasz Figa , Tushar Behera , Russell King - ARM Linux , lkml , linux-serial , linux-samsung-soc , jslaby , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ben Dooks Message-ID: <20140123200509.GO11727@sirena.org.uk> References: <1390208555-27770-1-git-send-email-tushar.behera@linaro.org> <1390208555-27770-2-git-send-email-tushar.behera@linaro.org> <20140120100530.GY15937@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140123180423.1a62611a@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> <20140123184022.GC11727@sirena.org.uk> <52E163DC.1090002@samsung.com> <20140123193633.GG11727@sirena.org.uk> <20140123195144.2d3aa44d@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YC8Ek3FeOE8ywfXk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140123195144.2d3aa44d@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> X-Cookie: Please ignore previous fortune. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.175.92.69 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --YC8Ek3FeOE8ywfXk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. --YC8Ek3FeOE8ywfXk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJS4XXyAAoJELSic+t+oim9us8P/0xYv2XqvHi3yE9SzYOBiaip 0RrRkMs5QtL/OPJ2rcKcR208BRJepWi2nSDBDpoTx2tOyLGvFeIMmWuHXixfmNhj RliruFbRlZEKokJcUkp4qxP3WbUK9etbMElCN1Sx+CA2JBbn65I5+UnO7FsmRgXw E1iFABxXIEQseJgsr1k4GjecKjdgsolV21Edu446+ohWETdaUEn8VtNJt6CW3iNd CvaDEBngoKE8hJSDqvmx+EtSr0XBiQ1fFhRmITib52NpFaa2IbWqLJxMy5yZd7PY eNRtplE6uYpELnGikD3kGr6I9HIOzcBob2Btlmb9y9sYNoldLF2/n+LOKW7YZGMZ MXIgBvxK5jqwB8BwjLAQgqxhkyPsd84IX776rgMrceJrrK9UTgMBX2mG9ZDaw/eu PrzPfRR9pTZvQs2YprhMnAy+iPKmK1YiUF0ml7QaCCsgouUSnTnPTALg0pk8Kgpt kht8qR3cU+WdZyUfRxuJYLc8QD3njQIrLcCdMgroz7nSoeFYAu5CJX8GG4p2/93b 0Q5Df9wuobfQ86ikgASiXprFWu3OuMdm1HZV6g65hBoxp1UrkpLyWOrCCUqCnQBF m9F1SrmnyOm6crJd4GV9cM9+Jlr89bmRSI+BTbOrger72Ta5s1dszP70qIxDnBL1 IkAg6hMJFXwZFsAVG7XP =EgIW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YC8Ek3FeOE8ywfXk-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/