> > This appears to be unrelated. > > > > Correct, you can look to it as two separate bugs: > a) the next character is not ignored while it should; > b) the status bits 31-8 are copied to the 'ch' variable while they shouldn't. > > Both bugs prevent correct break signal handling (and therefore correct > behaviour of the magic SysRq key). Bug b didn't cause too much trouble > earlier because in most situations the status bits are all zero; for > this case they unfortunately aren't. Ok that makes sense - no need to split them. -- 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
