Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:22:03 +0000 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE |
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> 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.
> choose you'll get a regression, non-working serial console vs broken detection of > perfectly working hardware like additional serial ports on industrial computers, > notebook touchpads and finally old and dusty ISA PnP modems. > > How widespread are these "known but hard to fix issues", to justify such drastic > change ?
Any situation where you have a serial console on an ISAPnP device explodes on boot. I do intend to find a better fix for this, but in the meantime it is best that the quick fix goes in IMHO.
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