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* seems to be impossible to disable CONFIG_SERIAL [2.6.7]
@ 2004-09-10 11:08 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
  2004-09-10 11:09 ` Russell King
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton @ 2004-09-10 11:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

hi,

has anyone noticed that it's impossible (without hacking) to remove
CONFIG_SERIAL?

remove the entries or set all SERIAL config entries to "n"...
hit make...
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 gets set to "m", CONFIG_SERIAL gets set to "y"!

seeerrrriiialllll muuuusssstttt dieeeeeee kill kill kill.

actually there is a serious reason: udev at the moment is
taking up a significant amount of startup time (with selinux
enhancements) due to the number of entries to create in /dev.

if the dbus stuff was enabled as well it would be _even longer_.

there are 64 ttys created

there are 64 serial devices created.

only three of these are actually used on my computer - well two at most:
tty0 and tty7.

why in hell's name would i want 128 unnecessary devices created?

i feel a kernel parameter coming on...

l.

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2004-09-10 11:08 seems to be impossible to disable CONFIG_SERIAL [2.6.7] Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-10 11:09 ` Russell King
2004-09-10 12:20   ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-10 12:35     ` Russell King
2004-09-10 12:59       ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-10 14:00         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 13:07       ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-10 18:12         ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-10 20:55           ` Kyle Moffett
2004-09-15 14:56             ` Bill Davidsen

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