2007-06-08 07:52:21

by Chris Wright

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Subject: [patch 48/54] SPARC: Linux always started with 9600 8N1

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]>

The Linux kernel ignored the PROM's serial settings (115200,n,8,1 in
my case). This was because mode_prop remained "ttyX-mode" (expected:
"ttya-mode") due to the constness of string literals when used with
"char *". Since there is no "ttyX-mode" property in the PROM, Linux
always used the default 9600.

[ Investigation of the suncore.s assembler reveals that gcc optimizied
away the stores, yet did not emit a warning, which is a pretty
anti-social thing to do and is the only reason this bug lived for
so long -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
drivers/serial/suncore.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.21.4.orig/drivers/serial/suncore.c
+++ linux-2.6.21.4/drivers/serial/suncore.c
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ void
sunserial_console_termios(struct console *con)
{
char mode[16], buf[16], *s;
- char *mode_prop = "ttyX-mode";
- char *cd_prop = "ttyX-ignore-cd";
- char *dtr_prop = "ttyX-rts-dtr-off";
+ char mode_prop[] = "ttyX-mode";
+ char cd_prop[] = "ttyX-ignore-cd";
+ char dtr_prop[] = "ttyX-rts-dtr-off";
char *ssp_console_modes_prop = "ssp-console-modes";
int baud, bits, stop, cflag;
char parity;

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