The above commit contains the following patch:
| --- a/drivers/serial/8250.c
| +++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c
| @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
| | #include <asm/io.h>
| #include <asm/irq.h>
| +#include <asm/serial.h>
| | #include "8250.h"
| | @@ -92,8 +93,6 @@ static unsigned int nr_uarts = CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS;
| */
| #define CONFIG_HUB6 1
| | -#include <asm/serial.h>
| -
| /*
| * SERIAL_PORT_DFNS tells us about built-in ports that have no
| * standard enumeration mechanism. Platforms that can find all
The code between these two hunks contains the following:
| #ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DETECT_IRQ
| #define CONFIG_SERIAL_DETECT_IRQ 1
| #endif
| #ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS
| #define CONFIG_SERIAL_MANY_PORTS 1
| #endif
and asm-*/serial.h contains:
| $ grep 'CONFIG_SERIAL_DETECT\|CONFIG_SERIAL_MANY' include/asm-*/serial.h
| include/asm-alpha/serial.h:#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_DETECT_IRQ
| include/asm-m68k/serial.h:#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_DETECT_IRQ
| include/asm-mn10300/serial.h:#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_DETECT_IRQ
| include/asm-mn10300/serial.h:#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_MANY_PORTS
| include/asm-x86/serial.h:#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_DETECT_IRQ
So, all these ifdefs are now useless.