On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 01:05 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > i2c is broken on linkstation / kurobox machines since at least 2.6.27. Fix > > it. Also remove CONFIG_SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM, which, if enabled, breaks the > > serial console after the "console handover: boot [udbg0] -> real [ttyS1]" > > message. > > > > Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You may want to use udbg_printf() to track down what's up. There's some > fishy code there indeed, what happens is that the legacy serial code > creates a platform device at boot time. Then, the of_serial attaches to > the device node for the same device and tries to register it. It's > supposed to "detect" that it's the same device but yeah, it may be > buggy, I've seen problems with it in the past, among others, I think it > can lose some state. > > In the meantime, removing SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM is a good solution. > > Ben.
I think, this needs an acked-by for -stable. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
