Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:59:47 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE |
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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?
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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