On 27/04/20 10:02, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> I did a tiny bit of git spelunking; I found a commit that changed >> uart_console_enabled() into uart_console() within >> uart_port_spin_lock_init(): >> >> a3cb39d258ef ("serial: core: Allow detach and attach serial device for console") >> >> Reverting just that one change in uart_port_spin_lock_init() seems to go >> fine on both Juno & HiKey960, but I think that doesn't play well with the >> rest of the aforementioned commit. I think that this initial (index, line) >> tuple is to blame, though I've added Andy in Cc just in case. > > The above mentioned commit reveals the issue in the code which doesn't > register console properly. > > See what I put in 0f87aa66e8c31 ("serial: sunhv: Initialize lock for > non-registered console"). Thanks for the pointer. I'm still a puzzled as to why it goes fine on one board and not on another, but at this point I don't have any better suggestion than the unconditional init.