Re: [PATCH] serial: DCC(JTAG) serial and console emulation support

[Daniel Walker]

On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 14:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:45, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 17:56 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> > I don't think the kernel is going to implode if we allow an optional
> >> > ttyS override for debugging purposes.. I just don't see that "screwing"
> >> > up the kernel.
> >>
> >> That is perhaps why you are not a subsystem maintainer.
> >
> > No, I'm sure it's not.
> >
> > What I was telling Greg is that this type of override is allowed right
> > now, if you mod the source (everything is allowed if you mod the source
> > right?) ..
> 
> just because someone can mod the source code to add a root shell
> doesnt mean we should accept patches to do it

That's not what I was getting at. If you can mod the source to add the
override, then adding in a patch which also requires you to mod the
source to add the override should be acceptable because it's no
different that what we currently have.

Daniel

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