On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:18:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:43:21 +0000 > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So this patch breaks the case where a kernel with PNP support is booted > > on a system without PNP-listed serial ports? Do we know the ratio of > > machines fixed by this compared to the machines broken? > > Well the original patch came from Red Hat so perhaps they can provide > data based on their userbase ? I'd prefer not to go with this approach unless we've got a convincing number of bugs filed. It's guaranteed to reduce hardware support in favour of fixing an unknown number of machines. -- 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
