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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: your change "serial: 8250: move RSA functions to 8250_rsa.c"
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 07:23:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90dac630-9b2f-4532-944a-eab7cf754caa@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9515bd4c-4bb6-4535-818c-283e69feb0a7@suse.com>

On 21. 10. 25, 8:22, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Jiri,
> 
> in this change you moved code from 8250_base to 8250. The latter has always
> had a dependency on the former. Now the former has gained a dependency on
> the latter, i.e. a circular dependency was introduced. Maybe modern module
> loading tools can handle that; on the first (older) system I tried they
> can't, and I had to resort to setting SERIAL_8250_RSA=n as a workaround.
> 
> One related question that came to mind: Seeing that both drivers are built
> depending on the SERIAL_8250 setting, why are they separate modules anyway?

Thanks,

could you give a try to:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ddfbc4bf-658f-3eda-5b4f-f111ecd932f5@linux.intel.com/

(It moves rsa from 8250 into 8250_base.)

-- 
js
suse labs

  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-07  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-21  6:22 your change "serial: 8250: move RSA functions to 8250_rsa.c" Jan Beulich
2025-11-07  6:23 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2025-11-07  7:02   ` Jan Beulich

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