On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:51:51 +0000 Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:40:11PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > > Russell King wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:50:49PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > > >>Some checkin since 2.6.11 has caused the serial driver to > > >>drop characters. Console output is chopped and messages are garbled. > > >>Even the shell prompt gets truncated. > > > > > > > > > There was a problem with 2.6.11-bk1 which should now be resolved. > > > > > > Is this still true of the latest bk kernel? Also, seeing the kernel > > > messages may provide some hint. > > > > > > > Here is a post I made perhaps relevant to this. > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111042402103071&w=2 > > > > I'll test current bk tonight, but I don't see any recent fix to > > drivers/serial/8250.c when browsing linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.6. > > There are only two recent revisions to 8250.c. One adds slightly buggy > Xscale UART detection, the other fixes the buggyness. > > What I don't know is whether either of these two changes are the cause > of your exact problems, because I don't actually know what you're > testing. Since Stephen's bug is a lot more well defined than yours, > it makes sense to tackle Stephen's situation first. > > The reason for this is taht pppd getting a SIGHUP doesn't actually tell > me anything at all. > > -- > Russell King > Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ > maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core My bug is fixed, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
