Re: 2.6.3-rc3 serial console woes

Keith Owens
2004-02-17T01:55:12Z

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:45:14 -0700,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:
>Reverting for now sounds like the right thing to me. I would like to
>understand what's going on, though.

My bad, patch merge error against kdb. Your one line patch is all that
is required. I have included it in kdb-v4.3-2.6.3-rc3-common-1 to
ensure that kdb works.

===== drivers/serial/8250.c 1.44 vs edited =====
--- 1.44/drivers/serial/8250.c Fri Feb 13 08:19:33 2004
+++ edited/drivers/serial/8250.c Mon Feb 16 12:03:06 2004
@@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@
if (co->index >= UART_NR)
co->index = 0;
port = &serial8250_ports[co->index].port;
- if (port->type == PORT_UNKNOWN)
+ if (!port->ops)
return -ENODEV;

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