Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936353Ab3DQRix (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:38:53 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.219.47]:48957 "EHLO mail-oa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936327Ab3DQRiu (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:38:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130416181432.a28e0465.skraw@ithnet.com> References: <20130416162047.2f9b83fe.skraw@ithnet.com> <20130416145953.GA8184@zod.gha.chartermi.net> <20130416181432.a28e0465.skraw@ithnet.com> From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:38:30 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: No serial since kernel 3.8 To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: Josh Boyer , richard -rw- weinberger , LKML , Greg KH , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2590 Lines: 68 [+cc Rafael & linux-acpi] On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:59:53 -0400 > Josh Boyer wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:55:25PM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: >> >On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Stephan von Krawczynski >> > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> can some kind soul please explain how I can get my serial port back under >> >> kernel 3.8.X. Earlier kernels showed: >> >> >> >> Jan 10 13:57:18 mybox kernel: [ 0.712829] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 >> >> (irq = 4) is a 16550A >> >> >> >> But 3.8.4: >> >> >> >> Mar 26 10:39:14 admin kernel: [ 0.603647] serial 00:0a: disabled >> >> >> >> Only kernel is replaced, no change in distro >> >> Is there some kernel boot parameter needed now? >> >> I tried 3.4.X and it works, even 3.7.X works... >> > >> >So, 3.8.3 worked and 3.8.4 introduced a regression? >> >If so please confirm. >> > >> >CC'ing gregkh, just in case... >> >> We had a report of this in Fedora that was fixed with 3.8.7. An upstream >> change had been brought back to the 3.8.x series, and it was subsequently >> reverted. 3.8.7 picked up the revert. >> >> josh > > 3.8.7 does not work either. I just checked it. I tried shared and not shared IRQ: > > Apr 16 17:47:05 mybox kernel: [ 0.604826] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled > > and another test: > > Apr 16 18:07:08 mybox kernel: [ 0.601203] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled > > I must say that 3.8.7 does not even tell the "serial 00:0a: disabled" any more. > This is no special board, it is a pretty mainstream asus xeon board with onboard serial. > Loading 3.4.24 (just an example) makes the port work immediately. > Anything else I can test? 3.7.6 works, and 3.8.3, 3.8.4, 3.8.7 all fail. So it looks like a regression between 3.7.6 and 3.8.3. The "serial 00:0a: disabled" message is from PNP, so I added Rafael and linux-acpi. Complete dmesg logs from 3.7.6 and 3.8.4 would be a place to start. Also maybe an acpidump, since the 00:0a PNP device probably came from PNPACPI. You could attach all these to a https://bugzilla.kernel.org report if you want a place to stash them. Josh, do you have a pointer (URL) to the Fedora issue so we can rule that in or out? Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/