This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix probe errors on UARTs 5 and 6 to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm-omap2plus_defconfig-fix-probe-errors-on-uarts-5-and-6.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Nov 9 10:19:57 CET 2017 From: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:13:19 -0800 Subject: ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix probe errors on UARTs 5 and 6 From: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4cd6a59f5c1a9b0cca0da09fbba42b9450ffc899 ] We have more than four uarts on some SoCs and that can cause noise with errors while booting. Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig +++ b/arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig @@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ CONFIG_INPUT_TWL4030_PWRBUTTON=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=32 +CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=6 CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ=y Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tony@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/arm-omap2plus_defconfig-fix-probe-errors-on-uarts-5-and-6.patch