Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752677AbaBQXuo (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:50:44 -0500 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:52810 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751100AbaBQXul (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:50:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:50:13 +0900 From: Mark Brown To: One Thousand Gnomes Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Greg KH , Tushar Behera , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, jslaby@suse.cz, ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk Message-ID: <20140217235013.GD2669@sirena.org.uk> References: <20140120100415.GX15937@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140213181216.GB24155@kroah.com> <20140213181559.GB30257@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140213182701.GA32578@kroah.com> <20140213184249.GC30257@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140213232606.GA27372@kroah.com> <20140214000717.GG30257@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140214001436.GA16287@kroah.com> <20140214003834.GH30257@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140217153518.30891455@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C+ts3FVlLX8+P6JN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140217153518.30891455@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> X-Cookie: Don't read everything you believe. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 106.188.99.154 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: pl011: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --C+ts3FVlLX8+P6JN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. --C+ts3FVlLX8+P6JN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTAqAyAAoJELSic+t+oim92UwP/0m0dRoUHXGOGX5r1ff+rubV ZY50YbYvRmLF9X2UUYw4V1+eg0Sb0iKZMQZ2MBddZH04A2OY6YEZ/mqbUwHtJKBz tLJjmoitQbZfUdenDPer2Sl9uxquyHdr5EMdQCO3qI0AQvVtA5tNRMszopRJTU7o /sE+j4HI4tIdsyC7CAms3Upsn1Q6CTvH5w00CfxTlniaomk0dHj1HxKfVVXR9XZ5 WBYbkTG+1iTMpTD8pdgBKrQzhESaxiBPBEKQIjFyp7xyOFF7l8NUi2rRF0f/Dc4x QVT3kz4uLO4C2mICqy8UcNxGpU/OLyqhix/CMP7JVNotqcQ9b1+WYQ1O/c4nx94C UI9L2jBRxqTw8rsSYp+Gg+uJVjWKv2IYtrQOxaRFoyiQyGnNwh0XAFaPdpf4uZgg ORT6fywjFRdPI9DshWSo8TnpnU+UchEBUNP7oOV1BBz+eOsPVt4KZYc81Hh+sFsK JfCUExznM6p2hlxsSoVbgRS6xNxFHit98cmsv7xk2C59wCN3Zlej2Uad4ISIhyJL OiJPVEb19w0xP/g8WYB1DcP8n0OMrp+4HtW/MjVON0rCa3tWdaiaiu4GBr/MeTXP sswnTBHioiy3CQdQs5aerrSaHd1GoqtdWt+Q7u/9Lkv3LT1ViE/bn6I4IK+57bVy OLbyJj69YT3nQts5tFNp =lMha -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C+ts3FVlLX8+P6JN-- -- 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/