> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
