This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: 8250: Enable 16550A variants by default on non-x86
to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-testing branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will be merged to the tty-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 15a3f03d5ec0118f1e5db3fc1018686e72744e37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 09:13:57 -0700
Subject: serial: 8250: Enable 16550A variants by default on non-x86
Some embedded devices still use these serial ports; make sure they're
still enabled by default on architectures more likely to have them, to
avoid rendering someone's console unavailable.
Reported-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@xxxxxxxx>
Fixes: dc56ecb81a0a ("serial: 8250: Support disabling mdelay-filled probes of 16550A variants")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a20b5fb7dd295cfb48160eecf4bdebd76332d67d.1590509426.git.josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
index af0688156dd0..8195a31519ea 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ config SERIAL_8250_PNP
config SERIAL_8250_16550A_VARIANTS
bool "Support for variants of the 16550A serial port"
depends on SERIAL_8250
+ default !X86
help
The 8250 driver can probe for many variants of the venerable 16550A
serial port. Doing so takes additional time at boot.
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2.26.2
