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

Alan Cox
2009-03-24T21:28:00Z

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:59:47 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> 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?

Since the conversion to drivers/serial - so years.

Alan