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

Alan Cox
2009-03-24T22:19:35Z

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:43:21 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:38:41PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > Since the conversion to drivers/serial - so years.
> > >
> > > So everyone using serial console with 8250_PNP enabled gets a crash on
> > > boot, and has done for years? Really?
> >
> > If their console port is PnP listed yes.
>
> So this patch breaks the case where a kernel with PNP support is booted
> on a system without PNP-listed serial ports? Do we know the ratio of
> machines fixed by this compared to the machines broken?

Well the original patch came from Red Hat so perhaps they can provide
data based on their userbase ?