Russell King wrote:

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:50:49PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

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Some checkin since 2.6.11 has caused the serial driver to
drop characters.  Console output is chopped and messages are garbled.
Even the shell prompt gets truncated.

There was a problem with 2.6.11-bk1 which should now be resolved.

Is this still true of the latest bk kernel?  Also, seeing the kernel
messages may provide some hint.

Here is a post I made perhaps relevant to this.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111042402103071&w=2

I'll test current bk tonight, but I don't see any recent fix to
drivers/serial/8250.c when browsing linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.6.

Steven