On Tuesday 24 March 2009 04:58:12 pm Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:36:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:29:34 +0000 > > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 ? > > I've had a dig through Bugzilla but couldn't find it, and it doesn't > seem to be in anything we're shipping right now. Clark, do you have a > pointer to a bug that this patch came from? This patch is a major problem for ia64. ia64 doesn't have any legacy serial port probing, so if we turn off SERIAL_8250_PNP, we won't find any of the non-PCI built-in ports. Many of these machines have only serial consoles, so turning off either SERIAL_8250_PNP or SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE is a problem. Red Hat has been shipping with ia64 kernels with CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y and CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PNP=y (or its predecessor CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_ACPI=y) since at least RHEL4. Bjorn -- 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
