The patch titled Magic SysRq SAK does nothing on serial consoles has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is magic-sysrq-sak-does-nothing-on-serial-consoles.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Magic SysRq SAK does nothing on serial consoles From: Simon Tatham <anakin@xxxxxxxxx> Make sysrq-K work on serial console by passing in the tty. [akpm: I don't think port->info can be NULL] Cc: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/serial_core.h | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/serial_core.h~magic-sysrq-sak-does-nothing-on-serial-consoles include/linux/serial_core.h --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h~magic-sysrq-sak-does-nothing-on-serial-consoles +++ a/include/linux/serial_core.h @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ uart_handle_sysrq_char(struct uart_port #ifdef SUPPORT_SYSRQ if (port->sysrq) { if (ch && time_before(jiffies, port->sysrq)) { - handle_sysrq(ch, regs, NULL); + handle_sysrq(ch, regs, port->info ? port->info->tty : NULL); port->sysrq = 0; return 1; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from anakin@xxxxxxxxx are magic-sysrq-sak-does-nothing-on-serial-consoles.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html