Re: [PATCH 1/2] tty: serial: remove hub6 multiport support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2026, at 09:51, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 02:59:47PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> Link: https://mirrors.nycbug.org/pub/The_Unix_Archive/Unix_Usenet/comp.unix.sysv386/1990-December/007174.html
>> Fixes: a300273c458c ("serial: 8250: hub6: Add cleanup code")
>> Fixes: c526404a4a92 ("serial: 8250: Fix corner case for port matching")
>> Fixes: 7ab80d1e7243 ("serial: 8250: fix compile error with hub6_match_port() when compiled as a module")
>> Fixes: da7b5fd4e17f ("serial: 8250_hub6: add missing include for hub6_match_port()")
>> Fixes: 3d406299d882 ("serial: 8250_hub6: add hub6_match_port()")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Fine for me. I wonder about the amount of Fixes: lines, but don't care
> enough to check.

My first thought on this was that the hub6 support should just be a
loadable module and that it would only require inlining hub6_match_port
into its caller, but then I saw that doing this would be exactly a
revert of those five patches that each individually make sense. 

> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

      Arnd