From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937373AbXG0U15 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:27:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761532AbXG0U1s (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:27:48 -0400 Received: from atlrel8.hp.com ([156.153.255.206]:38123 "EHLO atlrel8.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759965AbXG0U1r (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:27:47 -0400 From: Bjorn Helgaas To: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch] x86, serial: always probe for legacy COM ports Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:26:30 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Andrew Morton , Russell King , Adam Belay , Len Brown , Matthew Garrett , =?iso-8859-15?q?S=E9bastien_Dugu=E9?= , Alan Cox , linux-kernel References: <200707271158.50028.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <200707271411.42253.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <46AA53E3.5080501@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <46AA53E3.5080501@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707271426.30962.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 27 July 2007 02:21:55 pm Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > On Friday 27 July 2007 12:05:51 pm Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> This is still incomplete, as repeatedly stated. Here is the email, again. > > > OK, uncle! I'll work on your helpful advice (thanks for that), but > > it feels too risky for this stage of 2.6.23. Maybe I can come up with > > something for a future release. > > The changeset in the kernel is too risky _without_ the changes I described. That's what I meant. Andrew already has a revert patch in -mm, and the safest path seems like putting the reversion in 2.6.23 and working on your advice post-2.6.23. Bjorn