This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: fix parisc boot hang 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: serial-fix-parisc-boot-hang.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 68ed7e1c3d236e9e1e60ed6cae22f2c1c4ba2952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 10:05:13 -0800 Subject: serial: fix parisc boot hang From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 68ed7e1c3d236e9e1e60ed6cae22f2c1c4ba2952 upstream. This is a partial revert of 2f2dafe (serial: serial_core.c: printk replacement) which gets us booting again. The real problem seems to be the _emit path in early boot. However, until we can root cause it, we need at least to get boot working. Fixes: 2f2dafe77df2c78e189a9fa6b1879dffd06ae5a1 Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c @@ -2102,7 +2102,9 @@ uart_report_port(struct uart_driver *drv break; } - dev_info(port->dev, "%s%d at %s (irq = %d, base_baud = %d) is a %s\n", + printk(KERN_INFO "%s%s%s%d at %s (irq = %d, base_baud = %d) is a %s\n", + port->dev ? dev_name(port->dev) : "", + port->dev ? ": " : "", drv->dev_name, drv->tty_driver->name_base + port->line, address, port->irq, port->uartclk / 16, uart_type(port)); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/scsi-fix-regression-in-scsi_send_eh_cmnd.patch queue-3.18/serial-fix-parisc-boot-hang.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html