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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Matthew Howell <matthew.howell@sealevel.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, ryan.wenglarz@sealevel.com,
	james.olson@sealevel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: Revert serial: core: Fix serial core port id to not use port->line
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:15:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023091154-gallery-janitor-6ae3@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73817d5-cab-341-be76-ee9d565df57@sealevel.com>

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 09:04:14AM -0400, Matthew Howell wrote:
> So it seems like this might not be an issue for typical 'users' of the 
> kernel, but may impact people who need to build and load 8250_exar 
> manually for whatever reason, unless I am just building the module 
> incorrectly somehow. 

Yes, Linux does not support building a module against one source
tree/configuration and attempting to load it into a different kernel at
all.  You are lucky that this was the only thing that broke :)

Thanks for the testing and letting us know that all is good with the
tree as-is.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-11 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-28 20:41 [PATCH] serial: Revert serial: core: Fix serial core port id to not use port->line Matthew Howell
2023-08-29  3:52 ` Tony Lindgren
2023-08-29 13:42   ` Matthew Howell
2023-08-29 20:15     ` Tony Lindgren
2023-08-31 14:58       ` Matthew Howell
2023-09-01  4:47         ` Tony Lindgren
2023-09-01 18:48           ` Matthew Howell
2023-09-02  4:34             ` Tony Lindgren
     [not found]               ` <c4b1db31-7814-0d22-36de-a7e6f117d89c@sealevel.com>
2023-09-05 15:55                 ` Tony Lindgren
2023-09-05 16:43                   ` Matthew Howell
2023-09-05 16:51                     ` Tony Lindgren
2023-09-11 13:04                       ` Matthew Howell
2023-09-11 13:15                         ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-09-11 13:58                           ` Matthew Howell

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