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

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 02:58:44PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 06:14:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 3:40 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> 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.
> 
> Oh, agreed, I wasn't responding to that part of your message.  New
> serial drivers should never be enabled by default.

+1 here. I don't know how I missed that during review.

Some of the "new" (not really, the split of the 8250_pci) drivers
I made in the past inherited that so user won't see the change
(sudden disappearance of the console w/o touching defconfig).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko