On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 07:47:04AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > I agree, and I thought about it, but since this is meant for a very limited > > audience, I think a catch-all is the easiest solution - both in terms of > > implementation as well as ease of use. > > > > It's not meant for general consumption anyway. > > Then I really don't want to have to maintain and support such a kernel > option for 20+ years, just because of one broken system out there like > this. There are workarounds for this, as you have seen, including > booting with a "real" userspace, so I don't want to take this patch. One way to make this a bit more general purpose would be too add a way to configure ttyS0 completely --- e.g., being able to specify the port, irq, uart type, flags, etc. It still wouldn't be needed except for very rarely (since either serial ports use self-configuring buses --- e.g., USB, PCI, etc.) or they use the legacy x86 ports. So perhaps Greg might be more willing to take that kind of change, but even then, it could be argued that the maintaining such a kernel option for just a few non-standard or broken systems is still not worth it, but it would at least be somewhat more general purpose. - Ted -- 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
