[PATCH] serial: 8250: Enable 16550A variants by default on non-x86
Some embedded devices still use these serial ports; make sure they're still enabled by default on architectures more likely to have them, to avoid rendering someone's console unavailable. Fixes: dc56ecb81a0a ("serial: 8250: Support disabling mdelay-filled probes of 16550A variants") Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett --- Based on user reports from embedded devices that need these variants. drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig index af0688156dd0..8195a31519ea 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ config SERIAL_8250_PNP config SERIAL_8250_16550A_VARIANTS bool "Support for variants of the 16550A serial port" depends on SERIAL_8250 + default !X86 help The 8250 driver can probe for many variants of the venerable 16550A serial port. Doing so takes additional time at boot. -- 2.27.0.rc0
Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: Enable 16550A variants by default on non-x86
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:47:44AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 01:40:06AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Some embedded devices still use these serial ports; make sure they're > > still enabled by default on architectures more likely to have them, to > > avoid rendering someone's console unavailable. > > > > Fixes: dc56ecb81a0a ("serial: 8250: Support disabling mdelay-filled probes > > of 16550A variants") > > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett > > --- > > > > Based on user reports from embedded devices that need these variants. > > No "reported-by:" lines for these people? Not even the author of the > other competing patch for this issue? Genuinely forgot that the "Reported-by" tag existed; thank you for the reminder. Will fix. - Josh Triplett
Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: Enable 16550A variants by default on non-x86
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 01:40:06AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Some embedded devices still use these serial ports; make sure they're > still enabled by default on architectures more likely to have them, to > avoid rendering someone's console unavailable. > > Fixes: dc56ecb81a0a ("serial: 8250: Support disabling mdelay-filled probes of > 16550A variants") > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett > --- > > Based on user reports from embedded devices that need these variants. No "reported-by:" lines for these people? Not even the author of the other competing patch for this issue? Please fix up and resend. thanks, greg k-h