Re: serial console problems under 2.4.4/5

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron-office.nl)
Tue, 29 May 2001 18:45:39 +0000 (UTC)

In article <yrxofscdnpj.fsf@terra.mcs.anl.gov>,
Narayan Desai <desai@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>Hi. I have started having serial console problems in the last bunch of
>kernel releases. I have tried various 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 ac kernels (up
>to and including 2.4.5-ac4) and the problem has persisted. The problem
>is basically that serial console doesn't recieve.

The serial driver now pays attention to the CREAD bit. Sysvinit
clears it, so that's where it goes wrong.

I don't think this change should have gone into a 'stable' kernel
version. 2.5.0 would have been fine, not 2.4.4

Mike.

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