On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 03:14:18PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > This is so disgusting that I will do the following: > * ack your patch after you change the above (if that works) > * rename 8250.c to 8250_core.c > * change 8250_core.ko back to 8250.ko (ie. bring back the old module name) > * thus switch MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX above to "8250_core." > * deprecate all the newly added 8250_core.* params somehow and schedule > for removal. IMO this warrants a kernel config option like > CONFIG_8250_DEPRECATED_MODULE_PARAMS. > > We have a lesson learned. Indeed. In the patch that broke things, I renamed the module rather than the 8250.c source file in order to keep the patch small, but obviously did not consider the consequences well enough. I'm sorry about the mess I created. Sean -- 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
