From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:59:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090324205945.GA28394@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090324152203.6a989d06@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:22:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > This patch looks very controversial from my POV. Now distro people must decide
> > what to enable SERIAL_8250_PNP or SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE. And no matter what you
>
> They do already, otherwise your machine crashes at boot.
We don't. The effect of this patch would be to silently disable 8250_PNP
(since we don't build with CONFIG_EMBEDDED) and cause a surprising
reduction in hardware support. How long has this been broken for?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-24 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-24 14:01 [PATCH 00/30] Serial and tty for 2.6.30 Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:01 ` [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE Alan Cox
2009-03-24 15:10 ` Andrey Panin
2009-03-24 15:22 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-24 20:59 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-03-24 21:26 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-24 21:34 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-24 21:38 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-24 21:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-24 22:18 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-24 22:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-24 22:36 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-24 22:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-25 23:04 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-03-24 14:02 ` [PATCH 02/30] 8250_pnp.c: add another Wacom tablet Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:02 ` [PATCH 03/30] serial: Update PNP IDs Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:02 ` [PATCH 04/30] jsm: Fix the return variable and removing the unused retval Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:02 ` [PATCH 05/30] PCI: quirks, don't mark one netmos as class other Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:02 ` [PATCH 06/30] devpts: must release s_umount on error Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:02 ` [PATCH 07/30] cpm_uart: fix non-console port startup bug Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:03 ` [PATCH 08/30] Use barrier instead of cpu_relax for early blackfin boot Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:03 ` [PATCH 09/30] blackfin: Explain why we cannot cpu_relax() in early serial code Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:03 ` [PATCH 10/30] blackfin: BF538/9 serial uart support Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:03 ` [PATCH 11/30] blackfin: Use unsigned long for flags with irq functions Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:03 ` [PATCH 12/30] blackfin: Fix tty compile error in PIO mode Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:03 ` [PATCH 13/30] Fix DMA rx ring buffer handling Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:04 ` [PATCH 14/30] blackfin: Subtract ANOMALY_05000230 on quot Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:04 ` [PATCH 15/30] applicom: Auto-load applicom module when device opened Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:04 ` [PATCH 16/30] cyclades: Auto-load cyclades " Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:04 ` [PATCH 17/30] specialix: Auto-load specialix " Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:04 ` [PATCH 18/30] usb: Auto-load cdc_acm " Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:05 ` [PATCH 19/30] riscom8: Auto-load riscom8 " Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:05 ` [PATCH 20/30] rio: addition has higher precedence than ?: Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:05 ` [PATCH 21/30] vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding" Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:05 ` [PATCH 22/30] jsm: define init function as __devinit Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:05 ` [PATCH 23/30] icom: remove unused variables Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:05 ` [PATCH 24/30] isicom: isicom kref leak fix Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:06 ` [PATCH 25/30] tty: moxa, fix refcounting in moxa_poll_port Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:06 ` [PATCH 26/30] mxser: remove tty_port_tty_get from mxser_check_modem_status Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:06 ` [PATCH 27/30] ucc: Fix leaky error path Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:06 ` [PATCH 28/30] mux: fix build problem Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:06 ` [PATCH 29/30] 8250_pci: add support for National Instruments 843x RS232 devices Alan Cox
2009-03-24 14:07 ` [PATCH 30/30] 8250_pci: ni8420 support Alan Cox
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