This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "tty: serial: 8250: add CON_CONSDEV to flags"
to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 6741f551a0b26479de2532ffa43a366747e6dbf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:05:49 +0800
Subject: Revert "tty: serial: 8250: add CON_CONSDEV to flags"
This commit needs to be reverted because it prevents people from
using the serial console as a secondary console with input being
directed to tty0.
IOW, if you boot with console=ttyS0 console=tty0 then all kernels
prior to this commit will produce output on both ttyS0 and tty0
but input will only be taken from tty0. With this patch the serial
console will always be the primary console instead of tty0,
potentially preventing people from getting into their machines in
emergency situations.
Fixes: d03516df8375 ("tty: serial: 8250: add CON_CONSDEV to flags")
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
index 61569a765d9e..76e03a7de9cc 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ static struct console univ8250_console = {
.device = uart_console_device,
.setup = univ8250_console_setup,
.match = univ8250_console_match,
- .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME | CON_CONSDEV,
+ .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME,
.index = -1,
.data = &serial8250_reg,
};
--
2.11.0
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