Fabrice Gautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 02 May 2001 10:37:21 -0600
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> 
> > Fabrice Gautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > So this this probably a sulogin/mingetty problem. They should set the
> > > CREAD flag in your tty c_cflag.
> > > 
> > > the patch for busybox repalced the line
> > >   tty.c_cflag |= HUPCL|CLOCAL
> > > by
> > >   tty.c_cflag |= CREAD|HUPCL|CLOCAL
> > >   
> > > Hope this help.
> > 
> > This part is correct.  
> > 
> > However the kernel sets CREAD by default.  
> 
> Are your sure? Wasn't this the behaviour for 2.4.2  but changed in 2.4.3

init=/bin/bash works fine over a serial console in 2.4.4.  So I am
certain.

I get the impression that something in 2.4.3 fixed CREAD handling, and we
started noticing the buggy user space.

> > sysvinit (and possibly other inits) clears CREAD.
> 
> In my case I was using busybox as init. So there is no sysinit or any other
> init called before this line.

The busy box init is also clearing CREAD (as of 0.51 anyway).

> > I wish I knew where the breakage actually occured.
> 
> Just look at this diff on serial.c between 2.4.2 and 2.4.3:

If it was a real diff between 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 I would agree, however it looks
like your attempt to fix 2.4.3. 

Eric


> --- serial.c  Sat Apr 21 17:22:53 2001
> +++ ../../../linux-2.4.2/drivers/char/serial.c        Sat Feb 17 01:02:36 2001
> @@ -1764,8 +1765,8 @@
>       /*
>        * !!! ignore all characters if CREAD is not set
>        */
> -//   if ((cflag & CREAD) == 0)
> -//           info->ignore_status_mask |= UART_LSR_DR;
> +     if ((cflag & CREAD) == 0)
> +             info->ignore_status_mask |= UART_LSR_DR;
>       save_flags(flags); cli();
>       if (uart_config[info->state->type].flags & UART_STARTECH) {
>               serial_outp(info, UART_LCR, 0xBF);
> 

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