From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ZILOG serial port broken in 2.6.32
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:10:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1260148248.2076.1348.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200912060101.22515.rob@landley.net>
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 01:01 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> Trying again with a few likely-looking cc's from the MAINTAINERS file:
>
> Summary:
>
> The PMACZILOG serial driver last worked in 2.6.28. It was broken by commit
> f751928e0ddf54ea4fe5546f35e99efc5b5d9938 by Alan Cox making bits of the tty
> layer dynamically allocated. The PMACZILOG driver wasn't properly converted,
> it works with interrupts disabled (for boot messages), but as soon as
> interrupts are enabled (PID 1 spawns) the next write to the serial console
> panics the kernel.
Ah looks like I missed that... I'll dig. Thanks for the report.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-07 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-06 7:01 ZILOG serial port broken in 2.6.32 Rob Landley
2009-12-07 1:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-12-07 20:25 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-08 12:42 ` [PATCH] " Rob Landley
2010-01-08 3:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-09 8:17 ` Rob Landley
2010-01-11 3:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-11 7:22 ` Rob Landley
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