From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:36:32 +0000 Message-ID: <20090324223632.66680ebd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20090324135930.12735.7827.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090324140145.12735.29459.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:38997 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751335AbZCXWhi (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:37:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090324222934.GA30503@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Andrey Panin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:29:34 +0000 Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:18:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:43:21 +0000 > > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > So this patch breaks the case where a kernel with PNP support is booted > > > on a system without PNP-listed serial ports? Do we know the ratio of > > > machines fixed by this compared to the machines broken? > > > > Well the original patch came from Red Hat so perhaps they can provide > > data based on their userbase ? > > 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 ? Alan