From: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> commit 15a3f03d5ec0118f1e5db3fc1018686e72744e37 upstream.
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. Reported-by: Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]> Reported-by: Maxim Kochetkov <[email protected]> Fixes: dc56ecb81a0a ("serial: 8250: Support disabling mdelay-filled probes of 16550A variants") Cc: stable <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a20b5fb7dd295cfb48160eecf4bdebd76332d67d.1590509426.git.j...@joshtriplett.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- 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.
