From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752536AbaAXMDd (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jan 2014 07:03:33 -0500 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:58897 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752265AbaAXMDb (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jan 2014 07:03:31 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:03:09 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Alan Cox Cc: Tomasz Figa , Tushar Behera , Russell King - ARM Linux , lkml , linux-serial , linux-samsung-soc , jslaby , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ben Dooks Message-ID: <20140124120309.GU11727@sirena.org.uk> References: <1390208555-27770-2-git-send-email-tushar.behera@linaro.org> <20140120100530.GY15937@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140123180423.1a62611a@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> <20140123184022.GC11727@sirena.org.uk> <52E163DC.1090002@samsung.com> <20140123193633.GG11727@sirena.org.uk> <20140123195144.2d3aa44d@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> <20140123200509.GO11727@sirena.org.uk> <20140123213321.372ce82b@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gn1ylXQ+YRNuZICZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140123213321.372ce82b@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> X-Cookie: Please ignore previous fortune. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.175.92.69 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --gn1ylXQ+YRNuZICZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:33:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > Mark Brown 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. --gn1ylXQ+YRNuZICZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJS4lZ6AAoJELSic+t+oim9OPUQAJG4Z+j/lirrJAWlmFxJXBHZ bmzofKXrOShsBFBOFUDrIKYZ6FNlr8YuU+5Pggr9IT52fc7gGUeU3j9U075nQMgx 9Bx8rOBSh4WxNiGFDkf6PK5S3PkaXTvrNtrnx5TA57LtqzueEhErD8KsofaKdp1G 51Z5fr+DRiceauRBnRAN8ozN1fjJnHUMyXwZoKZYFh1vHlRc0OJBxuUsmTkZvoj7 6ZfDUa/Sl5Z6d7GXyQDZlZLwJY8Sfm/oO9FzLqMlAkn6rzWnkw6suvqXxBUuqrBr eKzeDAZCd7zf8M4r/KWBmFS6mwkGjDdY8+eoP+JOLG7BpUQmBdvMrzUXbcouEqEz unsCFxJ0SqQgMehq7jK8uccqguzN0odc5pcLL3dlOaAbKROGL8tYsDoex72yqm2I dCZBNiqLbLmz7/kl8FoMcbAPZUH/B246XunYtg9O1oaFXlTH0Wamm9hXbhGrcj5p C/GzxErdLM8ZaCWwLStU4InTQzK2vmJPbqT5fkvKGdX2Wx80DHixVkvX6pFFuFX1 aTgGtXbB04M4IJGk4j0wQ1uBWTHVWpcAjN3wHJej34P6g73h+82GHAd/cqEi4RGv MhJBtCuHkhPHJJlJf0Hx/nee6KDDlR672QRULlKKag7Zpz1YzUCnKxDciSw6PFjU P5QLeU5DIwmMpXnJNgvi =+gPQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gn1ylXQ+YRNuZICZ--