Re: [PATCH] 8250: fix autoconfig to work with serial console

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Sep 19 2012 - 09:57:25 EST


On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:21:32 -0300
Flavio Leitner <fbl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The autoconfig prints messages while holding the
> port's spinlock and that causes a deadlock when
> using serial console.

Doing autoconfig on your serial console while in use is insane, but it
shouldn't crash the system either.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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