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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: do not call ->pm() on initialization for console port
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:18:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071018161827.GB16244@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071019.011355.39154656.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:13:55AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> This commit in current git tree broke serial console for serial_txx9 driver.
> 
> > commit 97d97224ff361e08777fb33e0fd193ca877dac28
> > Author: Russell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>
> > Date:   Sat Sep 1 21:25:09 2007 +0100
> > 
> >     [SERIAL] Fix console initialisation ordering
> 
> The serial_txx9 driver initialize its port entirely on its ->pm()
> method if new state was 0.  With the commit, serial_core calls ->pm()
> even if the port was used for console.

This'll break some of the ARM drivers, and although I investigated
this a month or so ago, I've completely forgotten the details.

> Attached patch fixes this problem.  Is this a right way?
> If not, I will fix the serial_txx9 driver to skip the initialization in
> ->pm() if oldstate was -1.

I'll have to investigate further to refresh myself with what's going
on here, but your patch looks wrong.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-18 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-18 16:13 [PATCH] serial: do not call ->pm() on initialization for console port Atsushi Nemoto
2007-10-18 16:18 ` Russell King [this message]
2007-10-18 16:42   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-10-25 16:05   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-10-25 20:40     ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-25 21:36       ` Russell King
2007-10-26  3:12         ` Atsushi Nemoto

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