From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031076AbXDXVWw (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:22:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031080AbXDXVWw (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:22:52 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:50579 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031076AbXDXVWv (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:22:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:22:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft Subject: Serial console problem in 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 and earlier In-Reply-To: <20070424141826.952d2d32.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20070424130601.4ab89d54.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070424132740.e4bdf391.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070424134325.f71460af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070424141826.952d2d32.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Nothing special apart from > > the usual problem with serial not accepting characters that we had for > > awhile now. > > I wasn't aware of that one. I use a serial console on my x86_84 box. For a while now I can see all output but I cannot type any characters. /dev/console broke? Simple WAR is to ssh into the box and I was usually too focused on other issues to do something about it.