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    [SERIAL] removing legacy UART cruft · d3902aad
    Bjorn Helgaas authored
    I'm trying to remove all the legacy UART cruft from ia64.  In theory
    we should be able to discover all UARTs on ia64 via ACPI and PCI
    enumeration, so we shouldn't need SERIAL_PORT_DFNS.
    
    But SERIAL_PORT_DFNS currently does two things:
            1) it tells you about legacy devices you can't discover
               via a standard enumeration method, and
            2) it sizes old_serial_port[], which determines UART_NR,
               which is the maximum number of ports the driver will
               support
    
    So here's a proposal to make SERIAL_PORT_DFNS optional and
    provide another mechanism for configuring the number of ports
    to support.
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