Re: Serial driver hangs

From: Paul Fulghum
Date: Thu Sep 30 2004 - 15:11:36 EST


On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 14:59, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:51:52PM -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 13:34, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > This is strictly forbidden and always has been. I've no
> > > plan to touch that restriction merely to re-educate
> > > any offender
> >
> > Any offender in this case is most serial drivers,
> > including the 8520/serial driver in current 2.6
>
> which in turn also means the bug exists in 2.4...

Yes, it is also in serial.c of 2.4

My statement of 'most drivers' is wrong.
I should have said 'some drivers'
including 2.4 serial.c and the 8250/serial of 2.6

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Paul Fulghum
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