[PATCH 2.5] Minor fix for driver/serial/core.c

Jean Tourrilhes (jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com)
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:30:53 -0700


Hi Russell,

The following command will do nothing at all on 2.5.X :
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none

I sent you the bug fix for that a few months ago, but as
2.5.67 this trivial bug is still not fixed. The patch is below...

Have fun...

Jean

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--- linux/drivers/serial/core.d1.c Thu Apr 10 14:16:47 2003
+++ linux/drivers/serial/core.c Thu Apr 10 14:24:01 2003
@@ -784,6 +784,9 @@ uart_set_info(struct uart_state *state,
*/
if (port->type != PORT_UNKNOWN)
retval = port->ops->request_port(port);
+ else
+ /* Always success - Jean II */
+ retval = 0;

/*
* If we fail to request resources for the


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