Re: Serial driver hangs

From: Paul Fulghum (paulkf_at_microgate.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:05:39 -0500

    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
paulkf@microgate.com
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