1. 21 Jan, 2006 2 commits
    • Russell King's avatar
    • Alan Cox's avatar
      [SERIAL] 8250 serial console fixes · f91a3715
      Alan Cox authored
      This patch resolves most of the problems with an SMP serial console race
      with output via the tty path. At the end of the serial console print we
      force enable the tx int in case we clobbered the tx interrupt status
      racing between the console and tty output. That way the extra tx
      interrupt causes the transmit path to restart not hang.
      
      It also makes the serial console printk use the FIFO. This is neccessary
      because some remote management devices fake serial console with FIFO and
      are confused into sending one packet per character over ethernet when we
      stall rather than filling the FIFO.
      
      In order to preserve existing reliability semantics the function waits
      for the serial queue to completely empty before returning.
      
      Both of these problems were identified by a Red Hat partner.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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  2. 20 Jan, 2006 7 commits
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