On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:17:03PM +0000, Jose Goncalves wrote: > Frederik Deweerdt wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:50:25PM +0000, Jose Goncalves wrote: > > > >> I'm having a problem with the latest 2.6.16 kernel (I've found the > >> problem on 2.6.16.37 and 2.6.16.38). I have a application that retreives > >> data from a GPS connected on a serial port. From time to time a get a > >> kernel Oops, like this: > >> > >> > > Could you send your .config? > > > Here it goes... > Thanks. It looks like something is wrong with port->ops->startup() in uart_startup(), could you apply the following patch and report the results? And btw, you're using a plain 8250 serial port, isn't it?
Regards, Frederik diff --git a/drivers/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/serial/serial_core.c index cc1faa3..08772dc 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/serial_core.c +++ b/drivers/serial/serial_core.c @@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ static int uart_startup(struct uart_state *state, int init_hw) uart_circ_clear(&info->xmit); } + printk("type is %d\n", port->type); + printk("ops is %p\n", port->ops); + printk("ops->startup is %p\n", port->ops->startup); + retval = port->ops->startup(port); if (retval == 0) { if (init_hw) { - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/