Re: [BUG] NULL pointer dereference in uart_write_room().

Ben Greear
2008-05-06T16:28:26Z

Alan Cox wrote:
>> (5) uart_remove_one_port() is called by serial8250_register_port()
>> since ttyS0 is already in use but it is requested to be once removed.
>>
>
> That means 8250_pnp is taking over and then trying to delete the console,
> so its breakage in the serial layer glue. Perhaps Russell has some ideas
> as its hard to tell what he intended to happen originally.
>
For what it's worth, I've been seeing this problem since about 2.6.23 on
several
different systems, and will be happy to test patches. The work-around
of changing
the .config file will be fine in the meantime, it seems.

Thanks,
Ben

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