> At the end, you can see that init is somehow dying. If I revert this > patch, init is happy again and doesn't die, and the serial console works > like before. Can you check if init is getting a SIGHUP - possibly its opening the device and when it goes away gets a hangup which it isn't catching ? Alan -- 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