From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerd Hoffmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk.c: Concerns about the console handover Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:22:18 +0200 Message-ID: <46F3C58A.7000200@redhat.com> References: <20070921010349.2caee558.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46F3BC3A.8060703@redhat.com> <20070921130600.GB20277@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:52152 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758660AbXIUNW4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:22:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070921130600.GB20277@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Russell King Cc: Andrew Morton , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Gerd Hoffmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM, bryan.wu@analog.com, dilinger@queued.net, lethal@linux-sh.org, rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org, vapier.adi@gmail.com Russell King wrote: > I had an issue with the console initialisation on serial ports, which I > discovered during my PXA work. My reason for asking about the kernel > versions (which Andrew forwarded to LKML) is to determine whether the > report is as a result of those changes, or lack of those changes. > > Those -mm versions with git-arm in probably have that change. Ergo > the importance to answer this question about kernel versions. The problem description sounds like it could have been introduced by that patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=69331af79cf29e26d1231152a172a1a10c2df511 cheers, Gerd