On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:30:42 -0700 ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > > I had 8250.nr_uarts=16 in the boot line of a test kernel and I had a > weird mysterious crash in sysfs. After an taking in depth look I realized > that CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS was set to 4 and I was walking off > the end of the serial8250_ports array. > > Ouch!!! > > Don't let this happen to someone else. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> Added to ttydev tree but please fire straight at Linus in case he fancies it for 2.6.26 -- 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