Re: [PATCH 01/30] disallow SERIAL_8250_PNP with SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 17:00:17 EST


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:22:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > This patch looks very controversial from my POV. Now distro people must decide
> > what to enable SERIAL_8250_PNP or SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE. And no matter what you
>
> They do already, otherwise your machine crashes at boot.

We don't. The effect of this patch would be to silently disable 8250_PNP
(since we don't build with CONFIG_EMBEDDED) and cause a surprising
reduction in hardware support. How long has this been broken for?

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