linux-kernel - Re: [origin tree boot crash] Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.31-git

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Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:36:10 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [origin tree boot crash] Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for
 2.6.31-git

> Hm, removing the serial console boot line portion still causes a 
> spontaneous reboot. Same for removing /bin/setserial and removing 
> /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1.
> 
> That would exclude all possible uses of the codepath affected by that 
> commit, right?

Who knows what the early Red Hat user space does. Booting with
init=/bin/sh might be informative just as a double check.
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