Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 16:50:28 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] misc: Configurable support for PCI serial ports
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On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:35:57AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Configurable support for PCI serial devices
> 
> This allows disabling support for _non_-legacy PCI serial devices.

Why is the config for SERIAL_PCI in init/Kconfig rather than
drivers/serial/Kconfig ?

> --- 2.6.14-misc.orig/init/Kconfig	2005-11-09 11:27:26.000000000 -0800
> +++ 2.6.14-misc/init/Kconfig	2005-11-09 11:27:28.000000000 -0800
> @@ -473,6 +473,15 @@ config BOOTFLAG
>  	help
>  	  This enables support for the Simple Bootflag Specification.
>  
> +config SERIAL_PCI
> +	depends PCI && SERIAL_8250
> +	default y
> +	bool "Enable standard PCI serial support" if EMBEDDED
> +	help
> +	  This builds standard PCI serial support. You may be able to disable
> +          this feature if you are only need legacy serial support.
> +	  Saves about 9K.
> +
>  endmenu		# General setup
>  
>  config TINY_SHMEM

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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