Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:26:53 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE |
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On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:59:47 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 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?
Since the conversion to drivers/serial - so years.
Alan
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