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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: seems to be impossible to disable CONFIG_SERIAL [2.6.7]
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:09:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040910120950.D22599@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040910110819.GE14060@lkcl.net>; from lkcl@lkcl.net on Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:08:19PM +0100

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:08:19PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> hi,
> 
> has anyone noticed that it's impossible (without hacking) to remove
> CONFIG_SERIAL?
> 
> remove the entries or set all SERIAL config entries to "n"...
> hit make...
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 gets set to "m", CONFIG_SERIAL gets set to "y"!
> 
> seeerrrriiialllll muuuusssstttt dieeeeeee kill kill kill.

No idea - you've given very little information to go on.  I doubt
you're building an x86 kernel... Mind giving some clues and maybe
a copy of your .config file?

I regularly moan about overuse of the Kconfig "select" statement
and at a guess you've just been bitten by this.  Feel free to moan
like merry hell about it.

> there are 64 serial devices created.

Why are you seeing 64 serial devices created?  You should only see
about 16 or so in most sane configurations.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-10 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-10 11:08 seems to be impossible to disable CONFIG_SERIAL [2.6.7] Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-10 11:09 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-09-10 12:20   ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-10 12:35     ` Russell King
2004-09-10 12:59       ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-10 14:00         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 13:07       ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-10 18:12         ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-10 20:55           ` Kyle Moffett
2004-09-15 14:56             ` Bill Davidsen

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