Re: [PATCH][7/8] kgdb: exclusive use kgdb8250 uart I/O driver

From: Jason Wessel
Date: Sat Feb 09 2008 - 13:42:00 EST


Jan Kiszka wrote:
> jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> @@ -2175,9 +2187,9 @@ uart_configure_port(struct uart_driver *drv, struct uart_state *state,
>>
>> /*
>> * Power down all ports by default, except the
>> - * console if we have one.
>> + * console (real or kgdb) if we have one.
>> */
>> - if (!uart_console(port))
>> + if (!uart_console(port) && !uart_kgdb(port))
>> uart_change_pm(state, 3);
>>
>
> Jason, thinking about this hunk again, it appears broken to me. If we
> needed it for 8250_kgdb, we would also need it without
> CONFIG_KGDB_CONSOLE. However, powering on the UART with a special dance
> after we took over with 8250_kgdb is a job that has to be done _there_,
> not by this hook here. So let's drop the whole serial_core.c hunk from
> this patch.
>
> Jan
>
Chunk dropped and the patches are refreshed in the git archive.

Jason.

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