Re: [PATCH] Remove every trace of SERIAL_MAGIC

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On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 14:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 10/4/19 3:20 PM, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> > The only code mentioning it doesn't build (and hasn't at least since git)
> > and doesn't include the header defining it.
> What do you mean, amiserial doesn't build?

The code doesn't build if enabling the "option" SERIAL_PARANOIA_CHECK
in the file, this patch is removing that option and he code protected
by it

> root@elgar:~> grep AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL /boot/config-$(uname -r)
> CONFIG_AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL=y
> root@elgar:~>
>
> root@elgar:~> uname -a
> Linux elgar 5.2.0-2-m68k #1 Debian 5.2.9-2 (2019-08-21) m68k GNU/Linux
> root@elgar:~>
>
> We're using this driver, it works just fine.
>
> And I'm not sure what SERIAL_MAGIC does. Is that for CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL?

It used to be a magic number in the struct to verify you are getting
the expected object

> Because we still use that, too. Although I haven't tested it for a while but
> I'm using the serial console on my Amiga 4000 right now using amiserial.c.
>



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