Subject: Re: [PATCH] of_serial: ignore unknown serial port

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:44:39 +0200

>>> Is this a bugfix that needs to go in 2.6.22?
>>
>> This potentially breaks lots of other platforms, so no
>> please, put it in early in the next cycle and give those
>> others time to recover from this change.
>
> I would expect that the bugfix is relatively harmless,

Sure, but you cannot prove that without checking all possibly
affected systems' device trees, that's my whole point.  If
you need a fix for .22 you can always put a conditional on
celleb around the offending code.  Anyway, Paul's choice.

Segher