Re: kernel BUG at drivers/serial/8250.c:1256!

From: Russell King
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 18:40:38 EST


On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:09:46AM +0100, Karol Kozimor wrote:
> I've finally got around to test latest kernels and managed to find a bug in
> the serial subsystem, which happens during suspend.

Yes, serial_cs is claiming that we don't have a device associated with
the port, so we're treating it as a legacy port. However, serial_cs is
implementing the suspend/resume methods. This is wrong, since that
means the port will be suspended twice, and hence causes this bug.

serial_cs needs to register the ports along with the PCMCIA device with
which the port belongs to. This will stop it being treated as a legacy
serial port.

Unfortunately, it's too late tonight for me to dig into PCMCIA to work
out how we get at the device structure - I can't find any examples off
hand either. Therefore, it may be a while before I can produce a patch
to resolve this.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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