Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>

To: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz-ml@...>

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@...>, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes

Date: Thursday, August 2, 2007 - 7:15 pm

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 01:06:32 +0200
Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> wrote:

quoted text> commit 18a8bd949d6adb311ea816125ff65050df1f3f6e breaks serial_cs badly
> with an oops, completely killing PCMCIA.
> 
> register_console() now calls console->early_setup(). which in case of
> 8250.c (the only user anyway) is serial8250_console_early_setup()
> which is __init, calling 8250_early.c:serial8250_find_port_for_earlycon()
> which is __init as well. boom.
> 
> the changelog mentions SERIAL_PORT_DFNS removal which happens to be
> commit 7e92b4fc345f5b6f57585fbe5ffdb0f24d7c9b26. but this got reverted
> by commit 57d4810ea0d9ca58a7bcc1336607f0cede0a2abf. so i'd suggest to
> just revert the 8250 changes as well.
> 

<head spins>

Sounds like you'd be the ideal person to propose a patch ;)
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REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes, Daniel Ritz, (Thu Aug 2, 7:06 pm)

Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes, Yinghai Lu, (Thu Aug 2, 7:24 pm)

Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes, Andrew Morton, (Thu Aug 2, 7:35 pm)

Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes, Maciej W. Rozycki, (Fri Aug 3, 12:54 pm)

Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes, Yinghai Lu, (Thu Aug 2, 8:18 pm)

Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes, Daniel Ritz, (Fri Aug 3, 10:07 am)

Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes, Andrew Morton, (Thu Aug 2, 7:15 pm)

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