Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2023 14:57:57 -0800 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver updates for 6.3-rc1 |
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 2:32 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > It's probably most legacy by now - it's a long time since I saw a > > serial port being used outside of management ports, and even those are > > often ethernet these days. > > Serial console is hard to replace
Yeah, but I don't think that should make it "default on" just because somebody picked 8250.
I may have 8250 in my old config for my own legacy reasons, that doesn't mean that when I upgrade a kernel, it should default new drivers to be enabled too. My old legacy 8250 history does *not* suddenly grow new hardware.
Side note: we have *truly* legacy things like that SERIAL_8250_DEPRECATED_OPTIONS thing, which also - for historical reasons - is "default y".
I guess that's just another sign of the whole "this is legacy" thing.
Linus
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