From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:03:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140124120309.GU11727@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140123213321.372ce82b@www.etchedpixels.co.uk>
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:33:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 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).
I don't see how that follows? For the most part architecture
maintainers aren't going to be able to say too much about which
userspaces are being run on their platforms if the architecture
has any kind of widespread use.
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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
2014-01-24 12:03 ` Mark Brown [this message]
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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