Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sat, 25 Feb 2023 18:14:11 -0800 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver updates for 6.3-rc1 |
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 3:40 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > For what it's worth, in the VM world (e.g., qemu, AWS, GCP, Azure, > Linode, etc.) serial consoles are quite common way of debugging VM's, > and as an emergency login path when the networking has been screwed up > for some reason....
Everybody seems to be missing the point.
We don't make new drivers "default y" (or, in this case, "default SERIAL_8250".
It does not matter ONE WHIT if you have a serial device in your machine. If your old driver was enabled and worked for you and you used it daily, that is ENTIRELY IMMATERIAL to a new driver, even if that new driver then happens to use some of the same infrastructure as the old one did.
Linus
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