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| author |   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-31 00:38:02 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-31 15:39:38 -0700 |
| commit | 57d4810ea0d9ca58a7bcc1336607f0cede0a2abf (patch) | |
| tree | 6194ce01088fbd9852579a14bd8726d9c8eef73f /drivers | |
| parent | remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-57d4810ea0d9ca58a7bcc1336607f0cede0a2abf.tar.xz linux-dev-57d4810ea0d9ca58a7bcc1336607f0cede0a2abf.zip | |
revert "x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices"
Revert 7e92b4fc345f5b6f57585fbe5ffdb0f24d7c9b26. It broke Sébastien Dugué's
machine and Jeff said (persuasively)
This seems like it will break decades-long-working stuff, in favor of
breaking new ground in our favorite area, "trusting the BIOS."
It's just not worth it for serial ports, IMO. Serial ports are something
that just shouldn't break at this late stage in the game. My new Intel
platform boxes don't even have serial ports, so I question the value of
messing with serial port probing even more... because... just wait a year,
and your box won't have a serial port either! :)
I certainly don't object to the use of platform devices (or isa_driver),
but the probe change seems questionable. That's sorta analagous to
rewriting the floppy driver probe routine. Sure you could do it... but why
risk all that damage and go through debugging all over again?
It seems clear from this report that we cannot, should not, trust BIOS for
something (a) so simple and (b) that has been working for over a decade.
Much discussion ensued and we've decided to have another go at all of this.
Cc: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/serial/Kconfig | 14 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/serial/Kconfig index 18f629706448..819fc3efc468 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/serial/Kconfig @@ -88,21 +88,17 @@ config SERIAL_8250_PCI depends on SERIAL_8250 && PCI default SERIAL_8250 help - Say Y here if you have PCI serial ports. - - To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module - will be called 8250_pci. + This builds standard PCI serial support. You may be able to + disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support. + Saves about 9K. config SERIAL_8250_PNP tristate "8250/16550 PNP device support" if EMBEDDED depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP default SERIAL_8250 help - Say Y here if you have serial ports described by PNPBIOS or ACPI. - These are typically ports built into the system board. - - To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module - will be called 8250_pnp. + This builds standard PNP serial support. You may be able to + disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support. config SERIAL_8250_HP300 tristate |