Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty: serial: handle HAS_IOPORT dependencies

["Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2024, at 23:44, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 12/4/24 14:17, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2024, at 22:09, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> 
>> I had considered this at first but didn't really want to do
>> it like this because we should not be registering empty ports
>> on platforms that don't use the setserial style override for
>> the port configuration.
>> 
>> It does of course address the warning, just not the
>> underlying bug.
>> 
>
> I had a look myself, and concluded that a clean fix will likely require
> substantial changes to avoid regressions. Your patch series pretty much
> confirms that. This is why I came up with the hack below. Yes, it doesn't
> get rid of the underlying problem, but IMO it is good enough for 6.13,
> or at least not worse than 6.12, while at the same time avoiding the
> warning backtrace. It seems to me that a clean fix would be 6.14 material,
> and I really don't want those backtraces to clog up test logs until then.

Fair enough, let's use your patch then for 6,13,

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>