[patch] Simple serial fix for idiots at the lilo prompt.

[patch] Simple serial fix for idiots at the lilo prompt.

[Roger Gammans]

Hi

If you don't pay attention (yeah, I know) Its easy to write
kernel commond lines like 'console=ttyS0, console=.., etc'

The lack of a baud rate after the comma causes the kernel
to panic. The patch below will cause the kernel in treat the
non-existant baud rate specifier as the default without panicing.


--- ../linux-2.2+lvm/drivers/char/serial.c	Sat Jun 10 16:04:13 2000
+++ drivers/char/serial.c	Sun Mar 11 17:51:02 2001
@@ -3490,6 +3490,10 @@
 		case 9600:
 		default:
 			cflag |= B9600;
+			/*
+			 * Set this to a sane value to prevent a divide error
+			 */
+			baud  = 9600;
 			break;
 	}
 	switch(bits) {

TTFN
-- 
Roger
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