From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: Fix crash if the minimum rate of the device is > 9600 baud
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:58:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100115185839.GI12146@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100104162557.17151.23761.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 04:26:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> (Resend for -next)
>
> In that situation if the old rate is invalid and the new rate is invalid
> and the chip cannot do 9600 baud we report zero, which makes all the
> drivers explode.
>
> Instead force the rate based on min/max
Is this something that should go into 2.6.33 and backport to older
kernels?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2010-01-04 16:26 [PATCH] serial: Fix crash if the minimum rate of the device is > 9600 baud Alan Cox
2010-01-15 18:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
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