From 7fa21dd8bd191564a195291161d6b43db5d9c350 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Chivers Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 08:04:39 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] printk/of_serial: fix serial console cessation part way through boot. Commit 5f5c9ae56c38942623f69c3e6dc6ec78e4da2076 "serial_core: Unregister console in uart_remove_one_port()" fixed a crash where a serial port was removed but not deregistered as a console. There is a side effect of that commit for platforms having serial consoles and of_serial configured (CONFIG_SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM). The serial console is disabled midway through the boot process. This cessation of the serial console affects PowerPC computers such as the MVME5100 and SAM440EP. The sequence is: bootconsole [udbg0] enabled .... serial8250/16550 driver initialises and registers its UARTS, one of these is the serial console. console [ttyS0] enabled .... of_serial probes "platform" devices, registering them as it goes. One of these is the serial console. console [ttyS0] disabled. The disabling of the serial console is due to: a. unregister_console in printk not clearing the CONS_ENABLED bit in the console flags, even though it has announced that the console is disabled; and b. of_platform_serial_probe in of_serial not setting the port type before it registers with serial8250_register_8250_port. This patch ensures that the serial console is re-enabled when of_serial registers a serial port that corresponds to the designated console. Signed-off-by: Stephen Chivers Tested-by: Stephen Chivers Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [unregister_console] Cc: stable # 3.15 === The above failure was identified in Linux-3.15-rc2. Tested using MVME5100 and SAM440EP PowerPC computers with kernels built from Linux-3.15-rc5 and tty-next. The continued operation of the serial console is vital for computers such as the MVME5100 as that Single Board Computer does not have any grapical/display hardware. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Reading git-format-patch failed