From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759557Ab3FCQzd (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:55:33 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38141 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752129Ab3FCQzc (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:55:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 09:55:31 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Kyle McMartin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, karthik.manamcheri@gmail.com, torvalds@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: Revert "serial: 8250: Make SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS work correctly" Message-ID: <20130603165531.GA20412@kroah.com> References: <20130603133826.GE8270@merlin.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130603133826.GE8270@merlin.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 09:38:26AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > This reverts commit cfcec52e9781f08948c6eb98198d65c45be75a70. > > This regresses a longstanding behaviour on X86 systems, which end up with > PCI serial ports moving between ttyS4 and ttyS0 when you bisect to opposite > sides of this commit, resulting in the need to constantly modify the console > setting in order to bisect across it. > > Please revert, we can work on solving this for ARM platforms in a less > disruptive way. Ugh, how did this break x86 systems? Karthik, you said this wouldn't affect anyone else, what did you test it on? > Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin I'll go queue this up for the next -rc release, thanks Kyle. greg k-h