If the serial port gets shut down, then console output stalls. 9 out of 10 kernel hackers agree, this is a bad thing. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Wolfgang, please verify this new patch. Sylvain rightly pointed out that RX and interrupts should be turned off regardless. If it works for you, please reply with a Signed-of-by line. Thanks, g. drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c b/drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c index f8c1761..35f8b86 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c +++ b/drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c @@ -257,9 +257,10 @@ mpc52xx_uart_shutdown(struct uart_port *port) { struct mpc52xx_psc __iomem *psc = PSC(port); - /* Shut down the port, interrupt and all */ + /* Shut down the port. Leave TX active if on a console port */ out_8(&psc->command,MPC52xx_PSC_RST_RX); - out_8(&psc->command,MPC52xx_PSC_RST_TX); + if (!uart_console(port)) + out_8(&psc->command,MPC52xx_PSC_RST_TX); port->read_status_mask = 0; out_be16(&psc->mpc52xx_psc_imr,port->read_status_mask); -- 1.5.1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html