From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Subject: Re: Someting's busted with serial in 2.6.11 latest
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:40:11 -0700
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To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
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Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:50:49PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
>>Some checkin since 2.6.11 has caused the serial driver to
>>drop characters.  Console output is chopped and messages are garbled.
>>Even the shell prompt gets truncated.
> 
> 
> There was a problem with 2.6.11-bk1 which should now be resolved.
> 
> Is this still true of the latest bk kernel?  Also, seeing the kernel
> messages may provide some hint.
> 

Here is a post I made perhaps relevant to this.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111042402103071&w=2

I'll test current bk tonight, but I don't see any recent fix to
drivers/serial/8250.c when browsing linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.6.

Steven