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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver updates for 6.3-rc1
    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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