Re: [PATCH] 8250: fix autoconfig to work with serial console

From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-19 13:57:35
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:21:32 -0300
Flavio Leitner [off-list ref] wrote:

The autoconfig prints messages while holding the
port's spinlock and that causes a deadlock when
using serial console.

Doing autoconfig on your serial console while in use is insane, but it
shouldn't crash the system either.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <redacted>