Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267344AbUIEXiK (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:38:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267345AbUIEXiK (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:38:10 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.91]:12298 "EHLO anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267344AbUIEXiG (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:38:06 -0400 Message-ID: <413BA35C.8080705@superbug.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:38:04 +0100 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040812) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Owen CC: glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux serial console patch References: <20040905175037.O58184@cus.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040905175037.O58184@cus.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1782 Lines: 43 Alex Owen wrote: > Glen Turner, > > I have read your posts to lkml containing your serial console flow control > patches firstly for 2.4.x and then for 2.6.x kernels. > > Rationale: > "[PATCH] 0/3 Fix serial console flow control" > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0210.1/1790.html > 2.4 patches: > "[PATCH] 1/3 Fix serial console flow control, serial.c" > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0210.1/1791.html > "[PATCH] 2/3 Fix serial console flow control, serialP.h" > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0210.1/1792.html > "[PATCH] 3/3 Fix serial console flow control, serial-console.txt" > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0210.1/1793.html > 2.6 patch: > "[PATCH] Fix CTS/RTS flow control in serial console" > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0310.2/1080.html > > I have not been able to find any feedback on those patches in the lkml > archives. Also I can find no evidence that the patch made it into the > 2.6.8.1 kernel. This is a shame as I found your rationale very > persuasive. > > Do you maintain an up-to-date version of this patch? > Did you get any feedback for this patch, positive or negative? > Do you need people (i.e. me) to test this patch? > > Thanks > Alex Owen > - Does this fix junk being output from the serial console? If one is using Pentium 4 HT, it seems that both CPU cores try to send characters to the serial port at the same time, resulting in lost characters as one CPU over writes the output from the other. - 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/