Re: No serial since kernel 3.8

From: richard -rw- weinberger
Date: Tue Apr 16 2013 - 10:55:35 EST


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Stephan von Krawczynski
<skraw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can some kind soul please explain how I can get my serial port back under
> kernel 3.8.X. Earlier kernels showed:
>
> Jan 10 13:57:18 mybox kernel: [ 0.712829] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8
> (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>
> But 3.8.4:
>
> Mar 26 10:39:14 admin kernel: [ 0.603647] serial 00:0a: disabled
>
> Only kernel is replaced, no change in distro
> Is there some kernel boot parameter needed now?
> I tried 3.4.X and it works, even 3.7.X works...

So, 3.8.3 worked and 3.8.4 introduced a regression?
If so please confirm.

CC'ing gregkh, just in case...

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Thanks,
//richard
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