Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE

Matthew Garrett
2009-03-24T22:58:36Z

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:36:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:29:34 +0000
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > I'd prefer not to go with this approach unless we've got a convincing
> > number of bugs filed. It's guaranteed to reduce hardware support in
> > favour of fixing an unknown number of machines.
>
> I get a regular stream of complaints. But as I said Red Hat is the patch
> originator, Red Hat has the distro bugzilla so perhaps Red Hat folks can
> comment ?

I've had a dig through Bugzilla but couldn't find it, and it doesn't
seem to be in anything we're shipping right now. Clark, do you have a
pointer to a bug that this patch came from?

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