revert "x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices"

Revert 7e92b4fc345f5b6f57585fbe5ffdb0f24d7c9b26.  It broke Sébastien Dugué's
machine and Jeff said (persuasively)

  This seems like it will break decades-long-working stuff, in favor of
  breaking new ground in our favorite area, "trusting the BIOS."

  It's just not worth it for serial ports, IMO.  Serial ports are something
  that just shouldn't break at this late stage in the game.  My new Intel
  platform boxes don't even have serial ports, so I question the value of
  messing with serial port probing even more...  because...  just wait a year,
  and your box won't have a serial port either!  :)

  I certainly don't object to the use of platform devices (or isa_driver),
  but the probe change seems questionable.  That's sorta analagous to
  rewriting the floppy driver probe routine.  Sure you could do it...  but why
  risk all that damage and go through debugging all over again?

  It seems clear from this report that we cannot, should not, trust BIOS for
  something (a) so simple and (b) that has been working for over a decade.

Much discussion ensued and we've decided to have another go at all of this.

Cc: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/serial/Kconfig
index 315ea9916456..a288de520c5a 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/serial/Kconfig
@@ -74,21 +74,17 @@ config SERIAL_8250_PCI
 	depends on SERIAL_8250 && PCI
 	default SERIAL_8250
 	help
-	  Say Y here if you have PCI serial ports.
-
-	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
-	  will be called 8250_pci.
+	  This builds standard PCI serial support. You may be able to
+	  disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support.
+	  Saves about 9K.
 
 config SERIAL_8250_PNP
 	tristate "8250/16550 PNP device support" if EMBEDDED
 	depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP
 	default SERIAL_8250
 	help
-	  Say Y here if you have serial ports described by PNPBIOS or ACPI.
-	  These are typically ports built into the system board.
-
-	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
-	  will be called 8250_pnp.
+	  This builds standard PNP serial support. You may be able to
+	  disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support.
 
 config SERIAL_8250_HP300
 	tristate