Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1 - bad serial port count messages

[Russell King]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> I'm getting the following messages in dmesg:
> 
>   uart_close: bad serial port count; tty->count is 1, state->count is 0
>   uart_close: bad serial port count for ttyS0: -1
>   uart_close: bad serial port count for ttyS0: -1

I assume that it's 100% reproducable, and doesn't happen with mainline?

I'm not aware of any serial core patches in -mm which would produce this
type of breakage - maybe there's something funny with the tty layer in
that it's trying to close the port more times than it's been opened...
Hmm.

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