Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] Revert "drivers/tty/serial: make 8250/8250_mtk.c explicitly non-modular"

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>]

On Thursday 11 February 2016 11:00:22 Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> [[PATCH v2 1/6] Revert "drivers/tty/serial: make 8250/8250_mtk.c explicitly non-modular"] On 11/02/2016 (Thu 16:41) Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > This reverts commit d72d391c126e, which tried to remove dead code but
> > left the driver in a useless state when the main 8250 driver is a
> 
> Am I misunderstanding something?  The commit didn't cause the driver to
> be in a useless state for 8250=m.  But rather isn't that it was a
> pre-existing condition, independent of the change to 8250_mtk.c to
> remove the dead code in d72d391c126e?
> 
> Since the commit did not touch Kconfig or Makefile, I can't see how it
> could cause some new useless state that did not already exist, and hence
> the "Fixes:" tag is invalid as well.

My wording may have been bad here. What I meant to say is that it
was broken before the patch, and still broken after the patch.

The Fixes tag was meant to just be a reference to the commit I'm
reverting.

	Arnd