Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752142AbZCXVAR (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:00:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750830AbZCXVAA (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:00:00 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:41876 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750810AbZCXU77 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:59:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:59:47 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Alan Cox Cc: Andrey Panin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE Message-ID: <20090324205945.GA28394@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20090324135930.12735.7827.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090324140145.12735.29459.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090324151034.GC6859@ports.donpac.ru> <20090324152203.6a989d06@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090324152203.6a989d06@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 17 On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:22:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > This patch looks very controversial from my POV. Now distro people must decide > > what to enable SERIAL_8250_PNP or SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE. And no matter what you > > They do already, otherwise your machine crashes at boot. We don't. The effect of this patch would be to silently disable 8250_PNP (since we don't build with CONFIG_EMBEDDED) and cause a surprising reduction in hardware support. How long has this been broken for? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org -- 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/