'serial' cannot be built as module

'serial' cannot be built as module

[tmhikaru]

I've already tried reporting this to the maintainer in the MAINTAINERS file,
but received no response (mail originally sent 15'th of november)

Essentially, the 'serial' module is not, apparently, being built when set as
modular. I definitely know it's not being installed when I do make
modules_install.

However, if I include it in the kernel, it works. The 'symbol' is SERIAL_8250
according to the help in menuconfig.

I'd really like to have this fixed, as I try to reduce the size of the
kernel that I boot, as I have to load the kernel off a floppy disk.

Timothy C. McGrath

Re: 'serial' cannot be built as module

[Russell King]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:21:42AM -0500, tmhikaru@gmail.com wrote:
> I've already tried reporting this to the maintainer in the MAINTAINERS file,
> but received no response (mail originally sent 15'th of november)

My mail server has no record of this for the 15th - it never reached me.
Maybe you mis-copied the address?

> Essentially, the 'serial' module is not, apparently, being built when set as
> modular. I definitely know it's not being installed when I do make
> modules_install.
> 
> However, if I include it in the kernel, it works. The 'symbol' is SERIAL_8250
> according to the help in menuconfig.
> 
> I'd really like to have this fixed, as I try to reduce the size of the
> kernel that I boot, as I have to load the kernel off a floppy disk.

There's nothing which requires fixing.

If you read the help for that option, you will find that it's called
"8250" not "serial".  It also depends on serial_core.

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

[PATCH] serial: 8250 Documentation fix

[tmhikaru]

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From: Timothy Charles McGrath <tmHikaru@gmail.com>

This fixes the documentation error for 'SERIAL_8250' in
drivers/serial/Kconfig

This applies vs 2.6.15.1

Signed-off-by: Timothy Charles McGrath <tmHikaru@gmail.com>

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--- linux-2.6.15.1/drivers/serial/Kconfig.orig	2006-01-08 07:24:42.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.15.1/drivers/serial/Kconfig	2006-01-19 05:02:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ config SERIAL_8250
 	  work.)
 
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
-	  module will be called serial.
+	  module will be called 8250.
 	  [WARNING: Do not compile this driver as a module if you are using
 	  non-standard serial ports, since the configuration information will
 	  be lost when the driver is unloaded.  This limitation may be lifted