On Wed, Dec 4, 2024, at 23:44, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 12/4/24 14:17, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2024, at 22:09, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> >> I had considered this at first but didn't really want to do >> it like this because we should not be registering empty ports >> on platforms that don't use the setserial style override for >> the port configuration. >> >> It does of course address the warning, just not the >> underlying bug. >> > > I had a look myself, and concluded that a clean fix will likely require > substantial changes to avoid regressions. Your patch series pretty much > confirms that. This is why I came up with the hack below. Yes, it doesn't > get rid of the underlying problem, but IMO it is good enough for 6.13, > or at least not worse than 6.12, while at the same time avoiding the > warning backtrace. It seems to me that a clean fix would be 6.14 material, > and I really don't want those backtraces to clog up test logs until then. Fair enough, let's use your patch then for 6,13, Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>