If you don't pay attention (yeah, I know) Its easy to write
kernel commond lines like 'console=ttyS0, console=.., etc'
The lack of a baud rate after the comma causes the kernel
to panic. The patch below will cause the kernel in treat the
non-existant baud rate specifier as the default without panicing.
--- ../linux-2.2+lvm/drivers/char/serial.c Sat Jun 10 16:04:13 2000
+++ drivers/char/serial.c Sun Mar 11 17:51:02 2001
@@ -3490,6 +3490,10 @@
case 9600:
default:
cflag |= B9600;
+ /*
+ * Set this to a sane value to prevent a divide error
+ */
+ baud = 9600;
break;
}
switch(bits) {
TTFN
--
Roger
Think of the mess on the carpet. Sensible people do all their
demon-summoning in the garage, which you can just hose down afterwards.
-- damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk
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