Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: Move uart_register_driver call todevice probe

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:05:09 +0000
Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 07:51:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > That strikes me as rather more risky. We can propogate it through the
> > drivers as we are sure it is safe to do so on that platform and encourage
> > driver authors to migrate. Better than a "big bang" and the inevitable
> > fallout.
> 
> I don't see how we can meaningfully test this on a platform - the kernel
> would have to be pretty demented to care, it's userspace that cares and
> that's not really tied to individual serial drivers but is where we
> mainly need coverage.

Which is why I think we want to enable it gradually and platform by
platform as that platform or arch maintainer judges it appropriate given
their knowledge of their platform(s).

Alan
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