Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] IRQ handling race and spurious IIR readin serial/8250.c

[Alan Cox]

>  1. It is definitely correct and does not introduce any new bugs.

Right ;)

>  2. It makes the existing bug definitely go away.  That is, after my
>     patch is applied the code drives the UART correctly - that is,
>     according to the specification and in a manner guaranteed to be

The UART hardware and specifications diverge - often quite spectacularly.

>  4. Any fix which does not involve completely removing UART_BUG_TXEN
>     will need my change.   

Or the locking fix

It was described as a band aid so I treated it as such. Regardless of the
right thing to do long term its not a 2.6.29 candidate at this point but
certainly something that wants looking into in 2.6.30
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