Re: 8250 serial console fixes -- issue

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Feb 1, 2006, at 11:54 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:

> On Feb 1, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > On Mer, 2006-02-01 at 19:21 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > This patch introduces an issue for me an embedded PowerPC SoC  
> > > using the
> > > 8250 driver.
> > >
> > > The simple description of my issue is this:  I'm using the serial  
> > > port for
> > > both a terminal and console.  I run fdisk on a /dev/hda.  Before  
> > > this
> > > patch I would get the prompt for fdisk immediately.  After this  
> > > patch I
> > > have to hit return before the prompt is displayed.
> > >
> > > I know that's not a lot of info, but just let me know what else  
> > > you need
> > > to help debug this.
> > >
> > > I'm guessing something about the UARTs on the PowerPC maybe bit a  
> > > little
> > > non-standard.
> >
> > I wonder if I've swapped one race for another. Can you revert just  
> > the
> > line which forces THRI on and test with the rest of the change  
> > please.
>
> This doesn't seem to help.

I realized a bit later that the kernel I build with your suggested  
change wasn't the one I was testing.  After loading the proper kernel  
this does make the issue I was seeing go away.

- kumar
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