linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] 8250: fix autoconfig to work with serial console

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Message-ID: <20120919150223.0fc75225@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:02:23 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250: fix autoconfig to work with serial console

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:21:32 -0300
Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com> wrote:

> The autoconfig prints messages while holding the
> port's spinlock and that causes a deadlock when
> using serial console.

Doing autoconfig on your serial console while in use is insane, but it
shouldn't crash the system either.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>

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