From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: tmhikaru@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'serial' cannot be built as module
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:29:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060114092925.GA9443@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060114092142.GA10844@roll>
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:21:42AM -0500, tmhikaru@gmail.com wrote:
> I've already tried reporting this to the maintainer in the MAINTAINERS file,
> but received no response (mail originally sent 15'th of november)
My mail server has no record of this for the 15th - it never reached me.
Maybe you mis-copied the address?
> Essentially, the 'serial' module is not, apparently, being built when set as
> modular. I definitely know it's not being installed when I do make
> modules_install.
>
> However, if I include it in the kernel, it works. The 'symbol' is SERIAL_8250
> according to the help in menuconfig.
>
> I'd really like to have this fixed, as I try to reduce the size of the
> kernel that I boot, as I have to load the kernel off a floppy disk.
There's nothing which requires fixing.
If you read the help for that option, you will find that it's called
"8250" not "serial". It also depends on serial_core.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-14 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-14 9:21 'serial' cannot be built as module tmhikaru
2006-01-14 9:29 ` Russell King [this message]
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2006-01-19 10:34 ` [PATCH] serial: 8250 Documentation fix tmhikaru
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