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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 2:33 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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).

Ack. That's when 'default XYZ' should actually happen, in order to
people not miss old functionality that was split up into new config
options.

Which has definitely happened too. Then you spend an embarrassing
amount of time looking for "what broke for this device to not work",
when the answer was "that driver isn't built any more, even though the
config didn't change".

Ask me how I know.

         Linus