Re: [PATCH 2.6.16.18] 8250: Serial console enable Tx fix

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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:49:12PM -0400, Michael Hordijk wrote:
>     Enabling the Tx interrupt from console_write on buggy UART 
>     (UART_BUG_TXEN) breaks console transmit on said UART.  Revert to previous 
> UART_IER restore and use serial8250_start_tx() to cause the transmit path 
> to start and not hang.

Please look at how this got solved in the 2.6.17-rc kernels and
implement the same fix.  Enabling the transmitter at the end of
every console write is just plain buggy and asking for problems.

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