On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:29:34 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I get a regular stream of complaints. But as I said Red Hat is the patch originator, Red Hat has the distro bugzilla so perhaps Red Hat folks can comment ? Alan -- 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