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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:29:34 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:18:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:43:21 +0000
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > So this patch breaks the case where a kernel with PNP support is booted 
> > on a system without PNP-listed serial ports? Do we know the ratio of 
> > machines fixed by this compared to the machines broken?
> 
> Well the original patch came from Red Hat so perhaps they can provide
> data based on their userbase ?

I'd prefer not to go with this approach unless we've got a convincing 
number of bugs filed. It's guaranteed to reduce hardware support in 
favour of fixing an unknown number of machines.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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