Re: 'serial' cannot be built as module

[Russell King]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:21:42AM -0500, tmhikaru@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've already tried reporting this to the maintainer in the MAINTAINERS file,
> but received no response (mail originally sent 15'th of november)

My mail server has no record of this for the 15th - it never reached me.
Maybe you mis-copied the address?

> Essentially, the 'serial' module is not, apparently, being built when set as
> modular. I definitely know it's not being installed when I do make
> modules_install.
> 
> However, if I include it in the kernel, it works. The 'symbol' is SERIAL_8250
> according to the help in menuconfig.
> 
> I'd really like to have this fixed, as I try to reduce the size of the
> kernel that I boot, as I have to load the kernel off a floppy disk.

There's nothing which requires fixing.

If you read the help for that option, you will find that it's called
"8250" not "serial".  It also depends on serial_core.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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