From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250: fix autoconfig to work with serial console Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:02:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20120919150223.0fc75225@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1347996092-30957-1-git-send-email-fbl@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:36209 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753244Ab2ISN5d (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:57:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1347996092-30957-1-git-send-email-fbl@redhat.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Flavio Leitner Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:21:32 -0300 Flavio Leitner wrote: > The autoconfig prints messages while holding the > port's spinlock and that causes a deadlock when > using serial console. Doing autoconfig on your serial console while in use is insane, but it shouldn't crash the system either. Acked-by: Alan Cox