linux-kernel - Re: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!

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Message-Id: <20070730155939.9bf43314.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:59:39 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Christian P. Schmidt" <charlie@...add.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! - misidentification?

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:26:58 +0300
"Christian P. Schmidt" <charlie@...add.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Ever since Kernel 2.6.21(rc) or so I'm plagued with this message,
> disabling my serial ports that have been working perfectly from 2.6.14
> till that day (and are still doing so, given that I continuously remove
> the code from the source).
> Actually I cannot blame the code, but it seems that on both of my
> laptops the LSR is actually not readable. So, is there any plan to
> remove that piece of code again, or at least change it so it can be
> disabled conditionally?
> 

afaict this code:

	/*
	 * At this point, there's no way the LSR could still be 0xff;
	 * if it is, then bail out, because there's likely no UART
	 * here.
	 */
	if (!(up->port.flags & UPF_BUGGY_UART) &&
	    (serial_inp(up, UART_LSR) == 0xff)) {
		printk("ttyS%d: LSR safety check engaged!\n", up->port.line);
		return -ENODEV;
	}

is unchanged since 2.6.1, so I'm unsure what change you're proposing here?

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