Re: + serial-mystery-kbuild-fix.patch added to -mm tree

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Wed Mar 22 2006 - 13:22:31 EST


On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:00:29AM -0800, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> My kingdom for a changelog!

Still wanting one? I think it should be:

Allow disabling serial PCI and PNP support for embedded systems.

> +config SERIAL_8250_PCI
> + tristate "8250/16550 PCI device support" if EMBEDDED
> + depends on SERIAL_8250 && PCI
> + default y
> + help
> + This builds standard PCI serial support. You may be able to
> + disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support.
> + Saves about 9K.
> +
> +config SERIAL_8250_PNP
> + tristate "8250/16550 PNP device support" if EMBEDDED
> + depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP
> + default y

This wants some help text. Like:

This builds standard PNP serial support. You may be able to
disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support.

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