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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:38:41PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Since the conversion to drivers/serial - so years.
> >
> > So everyone using serial console with 8250_PNP enabled gets a crash on
> > boot, and has done for years? Really?
>
> If their console port is PnP listed yes.

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?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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