On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:26:53PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:59:47 +0000 > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. So everyone using serial console with 8250_PNP enabled gets a crash on boot, and has done for years? Really? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
