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

Alan Cox
2009-03-24T22:37:48Z

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:29:34 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:18:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:43:21 +0000
> > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > > 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 ?
>
> 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 ?

Alan