On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:03:09 +0000 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:33:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I don't see how we can meaningfully test this on a platform - the kernel > > > would have to be pretty demented to care, it's userspace that cares and > > > that's not really tied to individual serial drivers but is where we > > > mainly need coverage. > > > Which is why I think we want to enable it gradually and platform by > > platform as that platform or arch maintainer judges it appropriate given > > their knowledge of their platform(s). > > I don't see how that follows? For the most part architecture > maintainers aren't going to be able to say too much about which > userspaces are being run on their platforms if the architecture > has any kind of widespread use. For most architectures I suspect that they do have a pretty good idea. ARM is a bit different but I imagine the various platform specific maintainers are the ones who have that knowledge 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
