From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@samsung.com>,
Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-serial <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-samsung-soc <linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
jslaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:33:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140123213321.372ce82b@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140123200509.GO11727@sirena.org.uk>
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:05:09 +0000
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-23 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-20 9:02 [PATCH 0/2] serial: " Tushar Behera
2014-01-20 9:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: " Tushar Behera
2014-01-20 10:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 11:53 ` Tushar Behera
2014-01-20 12:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 21:43 ` Alan Cox
2014-01-20 23:14 ` Mark Brown
2014-01-20 23:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 23:35 ` Alan Cox
2014-01-20 23:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-01-20 23:47 ` Alan Cox
2014-01-21 0:16 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-21 9:03 ` Alan Cox
2014-01-21 9:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
[not found] ` <50b66ac6-1150-4ad7-aeaf-3d0dce77334d@email.android.com>
2014-01-26 11:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-27 4:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-01-27 10:07 ` Alan Cox
2014-01-27 12:32 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-27 15:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-01-21 16:59 ` Mark Brown
2014-01-21 18:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-23 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2014-01-23 18:40 ` Mark Brown
2014-01-23 18:47 ` Tomasz Figa
2014-01-23 19:36 ` Mark Brown
2014-01-23 19:51 ` Alan Cox
2014-01-23 20:05 ` Mark Brown
2014-01-23 21:33 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2014-01-24 12:03 ` Mark Brown
2014-01-24 14:38 ` Alan Cox
2014-01-27 0:15 ` Mark Brown
2014-01-26 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-27 0:04 ` Alan Cox
2014-01-20 21:16 ` Greg KH
2014-01-20 21:32 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 23:11 ` Greg KH
2014-01-20 23:16 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 23:51 ` Greg KH
2014-01-21 0:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-21 0:26 ` Greg KH
2014-01-21 0:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-21 9:25 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-01-21 9:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-20 9:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] serial: pl011: " Tushar Behera
2014-01-20 10:04 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-13 18:12 ` Greg KH
2014-02-13 18:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-13 18:27 ` Greg KH
2014-02-13 18:42 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-13 23:26 ` Greg KH
2014-02-14 0:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-14 0:14 ` Greg KH
2014-02-14 0:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-17 15:35 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-17 15:54 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-17 23:50 ` Mark Brown
2014-02-18 10:09 ` Etched Pixels
2014-02-19 13:57 ` Mark Brown
2014-02-19 14:47 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-19 15:53 ` Mark Brown
2014-02-19 0:47 ` One Thousand Gnomes
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