From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267363AbUIJLJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:09:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267365AbUIJLJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:09:57 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:60422 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267363AbUIJLJy (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:09:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:09:50 +0100 From: Russell King To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: seems to be impossible to disable CONFIG_SERIAL [2.6.7] Message-ID: <20040910120950.D22599@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040910110819.GE14060@lkcl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040910110819.GE14060@lkcl.net>; from lkcl@lkcl.net on Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:08:19PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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