From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: penguin@wombat.ca (Craig), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serial Console changes in linux 2.4.15??
Date: 18 Feb 2002 21:49:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d6z23wjy.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16cwTv-00073S-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16cwTv-00073S-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > If i manually put the lines back (the "#if 0" and "#endif"), then my serial
> > console works just fine.
>
> Except that you broke serial support for CREAD control
>
> > Did someone submit serial.c with the "#if 0" lines removed by accident?
>
> No
>
> > My other question is: Why does this break the serial console?
>
> Your user space is buggy I think, and didn't set CREAD
Old versions of /sbin/init are broken and clear CREAD. Most getty's (except
mingetty) do the right thing. I saw the change at 2.4.2 -> 2.4.3. I
don't why some people have managed to avoid it for longer periods of
time.
The great mystery is how /sbin/init managed to work in 2.4.2....
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-19 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-18 22:16 Craig
2002-02-18 22:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-18 22:54 ` Craig
2002-02-19 4:49 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2002-02-22 1:00 ` SOLVED -> " Craig
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