On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:05:09 +0000 Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 07:51:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > That strikes me as rather more risky. We can propogate it through the > > drivers as we are sure it is safe to do so on that platform and encourage > > driver authors to migrate. Better than a "big bang" and the inevitable > > fallout. > > 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). Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
