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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] serial: samsung: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:03:09 +0000
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:33:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> 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.

For most architectures I suspect that they do have a pretty good idea.
ARM is a bit different but I imagine the various platform specific
maintainers are the ones who have that knowledge

Alan


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