[PATCH 5/5] drivers/tty: make serial 8250_lpc18xx.c Kconfig a tristate

Joachim Eastwood manabian at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 23:58:37 PDT 2015


On 19 August 2015 at 23:48, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com> wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> 8250/Kconfig:config SERIAL_8250_LPC18XX
> 8250/Kconfig:        bool "NXP LPC18xx/43xx serial port support"
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> When targetting orphaned modular code in non-modular drivers, this
> came up.  Joachim indicated that the driver was actually meant to
> be tristate but ended up bool by accident.  So here we make it
> tristate instead of removing the modular code that was essentially
> orphaned.
>
> Suggested-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian at gmail.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.com>
> Cc: Joachim Eastwood <manabian at gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-serial at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com>

Acked-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian at gmail.com>

Build tested as a module on lpc18xx.

Thanks for fixing it Paul.


regards,
Joachim Eastwood



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