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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:26:53PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:59:47 +0000
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Since the conversion to drivers/serial - so years.

So everyone using serial console with 8250_PNP enabled gets a crash on 
boot, and has done for years? Really?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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