Re: [BUG] NULL pointer dereference in uart_write_room().

From: Russell King
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 17:32:00 EST


On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:30:55AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > (5) uart_remove_one_port() is called by serial8250_register_port()
> > since ttyS0 is already in use but it is requested to be once removed.
>
> That means 8250_pnp is taking over and then trying to delete the console,
> so its breakage in the serial layer glue. Perhaps Russell has some ideas
> as its hard to tell what he intended to happen originally.

Is the rest of the report available somewhere?

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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