On Friday 11 March 2005 01:13 pm, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >>Stephen Hemminger also wrote: (Someting's busted with serial in 2.6.11 > >>latest) > >> > >>>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. > > > > > >>Searching lkml archive, I found: > >>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111031501416334&w=2 > >> > >>I also found that reverting that patch made the problem go away for > >>2.6.11-bk1. > > > > > > > > Yes, this patch is the problem. A fix showed up today. > > Current kernels work fine, thanks. > > Could someone who has the patch broken out send it to -stable? Serial > not working is a non-trivial issue given the number of people who use > dialup either full time or as a fallback connection. > The fix is in: http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|src/|src/drivers|src/drivers/serial|related/drivers/serial/8250.c
Since the breakage which this fix is for didn't appear until after 2.6.11, a patch to 2.6.11.x is not required. Steven - 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/