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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, jslaby@suse.cz,
	ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: pl011: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:50:13 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140217235013.GD2669@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140217153518.30891455@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk>

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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 03:35:18PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:

> We've identified a correct working approach which is to simply add a
> CONFIG entry to the ARM tree and a few ifdefs to the problem drivers to
> make the "problem" (in fact a complete fictional non-problem) go away and
> to get rid of the mess over time completely as the drivers are set
> dynamic and it turns out that all the userspace happens to already handle
> this just fine.

It's a very real problem which affects actual kernels that distro style
users are building.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-17 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-20  9:02 [PATCH 0/2] serial: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe Tushar Behera
2014-01-20  9:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: " Tushar Behera
2014-01-20 10:05   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 11:53     ` Tushar Behera
2014-01-20 12:26       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 21:43       ` Alan Cox
2014-01-20 23:14         ` Mark Brown
2014-01-20 23:21           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 23:35             ` Alan Cox
2014-01-20 23:52               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-01-20 23:47           ` Alan Cox
2014-01-21  0:16             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-21  9:03               ` Alan Cox
2014-01-21  9:49                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
     [not found]               ` <50b66ac6-1150-4ad7-aeaf-3d0dce77334d@email.android.com>
2014-01-26 11:54                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-27  4:30                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-01-27 10:07                     ` Alan Cox
2014-01-27 12:32                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-27 15:03                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-01-21 16:59             ` Mark Brown
2014-01-21 18:30               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-23 18:04       ` Alan Cox
2014-01-23 18:40         ` Mark Brown
2014-01-23 18:47           ` Tomasz Figa
2014-01-23 19:36             ` Mark Brown
2014-01-23 19:51               ` Alan Cox
2014-01-23 20:05                 ` Mark Brown
2014-01-23 21:33                   ` Alan Cox
2014-01-24 12:03                     ` Mark Brown
2014-01-24 14:38                       ` Alan Cox
2014-01-27  0:15                         ` Mark Brown
2014-01-26 21:09               ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-27  0:04                 ` Alan Cox
2014-01-20 21:16     ` Greg KH
2014-01-20 21:32       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 23:11         ` Greg KH
2014-01-20 23:16           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 23:51             ` Greg KH
2014-01-21  0:07               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-21  0:26                 ` Greg KH
2014-01-21  0:38                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-21  9:25                     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-01-21  9:45                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20  9:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] serial: pl011: " Tushar Behera
2014-01-20 10:04   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-13 18:12     ` Greg KH
2014-02-13 18:15       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-13 18:27         ` Greg KH
2014-02-13 18:42           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-13 23:26             ` Greg KH
2014-02-14  0:07               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-14  0:14                 ` Greg KH
2014-02-14  0:38                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-17 15:35                     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-17 15:54                       ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-17 23:50                       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-02-18 10:09                         ` Etched Pixels
2014-02-19 13:57                           ` Mark Brown
2014-02-19 14:47                             ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-19 15:53                               ` Mark Brown
2014-02-19  0:47                   ` One Thousand Gnomes

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