The patch titled serial: set DTR in uart for kernel serial console has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is serial-set-dtr-in-uart-for-kernel-serial-console.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: serial: set DTR in uart for kernel serial console From: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@xxxxxxx> Some UARTs on other side need host uart DTR is set, otherwise will not receive char from the host that kernel is runing during kernel boot stage. BTW: earlyprintk and early_uart are hard coded to set DTR/RTS. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@xxxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/serial/serial_core.c | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/serial/serial_core.c~serial-set-dtr-in-uart-for-kernel-serial-console drivers/serial/serial_core.c --- a/drivers/serial/serial_core.c~serial-set-dtr-in-uart-for-kernel-serial-console +++ a/drivers/serial/serial_core.c @@ -2303,8 +2303,14 @@ int uart_add_one_port(struct uart_driver * It may be that the port was not available. */ if (port->type != PORT_UNKNOWN && - port->cons && !(port->cons->flags & CON_ENABLED)) + port->cons && !(port->cons->flags & CON_ENABLED)) { + /* + * some uarts on other side don't support no flow control. + * So we set DTR in host uart to make them happy --- YHLU + */ + port->mctrl |= TIOCM_DTR; register_console(port->cons); + } /* * Ensure UPF_DEAD is not set. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from Yinghai.Lu@xxxxxxx are console-more-buf-for-index-parsing.patch console-console-handover-to-preferred-console.patch serial-convert-early_uart-to-earlycon-for-8250.patch serial-set-dtr-in-uart-for-kernel-serial-console.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