Subject: Re: Serial driver hangs
From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 14:59, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:51:52PM -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 13:34, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > This is strictly forbidden and always has been. I've no
> > > plan to touch that restriction merely to re-educate 
> > > any offender
> > 
> > Any offender in this case is most serial drivers,
> > including the 8520/serial driver in current 2.6
> 
> which in turn also means the bug exists in 2.4...

Yes, it is also in serial.c of 2.4

My statement of 'most drivers' is wrong.
I should have said 'some drivers'
including 2.4 serial.c and the 8250/serial of 2.6

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Paul Fulghum
paulkf@microgate.com

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