Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: pl011: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Feb 17 2014 - 18:50:55 EST


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 03:35:18PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:

> We've identified a correct working approach which is to simply add a
> CONFIG entry to the ARM tree and a few ifdefs to the problem drivers to
> make the "problem" (in fact a complete fictional non-problem) go away and
> to get rid of the mess over time completely as the drivers are set
> dynamic and it turns out that all the userspace happens to already handle
> this just fine.

It's a very real problem which affects actual kernels that distro style
users are building.

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