Serial driver problems with 2.1.1xx

Brian K. White (linut@squonk.net)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:50:16 -0400

> Subject: Serial driver problems with 2.1.1xx
>
> Hi, all. I've noticed a problem with 2.1.109 and 2.1.111-pre1 where
> setserial hangs while frobbing the serial port. Under 2.1.111-pre1 it
> doesn't always hang (I haven't tested long enough under 2.1.109 to see
> if it sometimes doesn't hang), but at least half the time it hangs.
>
> It appears the process is hanging during the close(2). Furthermore,
> the hanged process is in the running state. I've appended the output
> of strace.
> I'm running setserial-2.14.
>

I've noticed something of slight importance with serial myself.

I need to use setserial during boot to tell the serial driver that
ttyS2 is on irq5, not irq4 for 2.0.33 and I think 2.1.<100

2.1.106ac4 does not need it.

2.1.111pre1 needs it again.

Don't ask me, I just look like I work here :) 

-- 


Brian~




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