Re: seems to be impossible to disable CONFIG_SERIAL [2.6.7]

[Russell King]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:08:19PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> hi,
> 
> has anyone noticed that it's impossible (without hacking) to remove
> CONFIG_SERIAL?
> 
> remove the entries or set all SERIAL config entries to "n"...
> hit make...
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 gets set to "m", CONFIG_SERIAL gets set to "y"!
> 
> seeerrrriiialllll muuuusssstttt dieeeeeee kill kill kill.

No idea - you've given very little information to go on.  I doubt
you're building an x86 kernel... Mind giving some clues and maybe
a copy of your .config file?

I regularly moan about overuse of the Kconfig "select" statement
and at a guess you've just been bitten by this.  Feel free to moan
like merry hell about it.

> there are 64 serial devices created.

Why are you seeing 64 serial devices created?  You should only see
about 16 or so in most sane configurations.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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