Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:05:09 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe |
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 07:51:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> That strikes me as rather more risky. We can propogate it through the > drivers as we are sure it is safe to do so on that platform and encourage > driver authors to migrate. Better than a "big bang" and the inevitable > fallout.
I don't see how we can meaningfully test this on a platform - the kernel would have to be pretty demented to care, it's userspace that cares and that's not really tied to individual serial drivers but is where we mainly need coverage.
> We do want it user selectable, because we want people to leave it off > unless they have a need for it - that then becomes a path towards > eventually getting rid of them static identifiers for good.
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