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

Matthew Garrett
2009-03-24T22:29:59Z

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.

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