Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753509AbZCXW6g (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:58:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754646AbZCXW6X (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:58:23 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:53082 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753739AbZCXW6W (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:58:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:58:12 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Alan Cox Cc: Andrey Panin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, williams@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE Message-ID: <20090324225812.GA30827@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20090324151034.GC6859@ports.donpac.ru> <20090324152203.6a989d06@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090324205945.GA28394@srcf.ucam.org> <20090324212653.77d6e70c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090324213416.GA29507@srcf.ucam.org> <20090324213841.59d6b299@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090324214321.GA29671@srcf.ucam.org> <20090324221816.50e7ccc2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090324222934.GA30503@srcf.ucam.org> <20090324223632.66680ebd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090324223632.66680ebd@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: 981 Lines: 22 On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:36:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:29:34 +0000 > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > 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. > > I get a regular stream of complaints. But as I said Red Hat is the patch > originator, Red Hat has the distro bugzilla so perhaps Red Hat folks can > comment ? I've had a dig through Bugzilla but couldn't find it, and it doesn't seem to be in anything we're shipping right now. Clark, do you have a pointer to a bug that this patch came from? -- 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/