Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754189AbZAEVX3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:23:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753125AbZAEVXQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:23:16 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38672 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752814AbZAEVXO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:23:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:21:45 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Arjan van de Ven cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls In-Reply-To: <20090105131350.66408a4f@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20090104092430.7ffd2c41@infradead.org> <20090104103104.6fdda9f2@infradead.org> <20090104110559.306186c4@infradead.org> <20090105162125.093b4adf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090105131350.66408a4f@infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 986 Lines: 28 On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > ok I had that enabled somehow.... Well, it's not just "somehow". It's the x86 def_config value, and it's also the default in at least the Fedora kernels. Probably for a very good - although these days probably historical - reason: on older hardware, it really wasn't all that unusual to have the serial port at other interrupts. And Alan may point to the help text, but that doesn't really matter since everybody clearly ignores it, and it's not what has been tested. But yeah, we probably should disable it at least for modern machines. And even if it doesn't autodetect the irq, "setserial" hopefully still does work (and was always required for some machines anyway) Linus -- 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/