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serial: core: add comment about definitely used port types

When port type 18 was removed, it was deduced that the code could go but
its define has to stay because it is used in userspace. Share that
knowledge by adding a comment about it.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230922063642.4120-3-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
··· 11 11 * The type definitions. These are from Ted Ts'o's serial.h 12 12 * By historical reasons the values from 0 to 13 are defined 13 13 * in the include/uapi/linux/serial.h, do not define them here. 14 + * Values 0 to 19 are used by setserial from busybox and must never 15 + * be modified. 14 16 */ 15 17 #define PORT_NS16550A 14 16 18 #define PORT_XSCALE 15