Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:12:39 -0600 | From | Clark Williams <> | Subject | Re: serial8250 madness |
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:00:33 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > The big outstanding bug I know about is the incompatibility between the > PnP 8250 drivers and serial console - that may be your machine C case. > That one is rather hard to fix so on the long rather than short term hit > list. > > Alan
I spend a few days trying to figure out a panic in the uart driver that turned out to be this issue. Would it make sense to add the following?
diff --git a/drivers/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/serial/Kconfig index 579d63a..35acc6b 100644 - --- a/drivers/serial/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/serial/Kconfig @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ config SERIAL_8250_PCI config SERIAL_8250_PNP tristate "8250/16550 PNP device support" if EMBEDDED - - depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP + depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP && ! SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE default SERIAL_8250 help This builds standard PNP serial support. You may be able to Clark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkl7L/MACgkQHyuj/+TTEp21NACgpQI89LMX5ZtJbVlMcpa9A/I0 6JkAoIa5Nwt4mvm6UJGzGkoUGKOCzn5V =YUtB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- | |