[PATCH] of_serial: ignore unknown serial port

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jun 6 23:44:39 EST 2007


>>> Is this a bugfix that needs to go in 2.6.22?
>>
>> This potentially breaks lots of other platforms, so no
>> please, put it in early in the next cycle and give those
>> others time to recover from this change.
>
> I would expect that the bugfix is relatively harmless,

Sure, but you cannot prove that without checking all possibly
affected systems' device trees, that's my whole point.  If
you need a fix for .22 you can always put a conditional on
celleb around the offending code.  Anyway, Paul's choice.


Segher




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