On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 01:59:48PM +0400, Gleb O. Raiko wrote:
> > Could somebody of the DECstation people please check if the fix for
> > sgiserial.c which I checked into CVS last night also is required for it?
>
> While I'm not a DECstation guy, I've checked the changes it order to
> ensure DECstation zs driver suffers from the problem. Why I'm care of
> any changes in the serial drivers is the fact I observe the situation
> where my Baget with the Zilog chip running 2.3.9 hangs somewhere in
> getty and other Baget with the VAC chip not. 2.2.1 works fine.
>
> Well, the zs driver seems to handle this case. Perhaps, we might remove
> that unnecessary check in the zs driver too (hint!), but thinking the zs
> driver full of other unnecessary things it's not so urgent.
>
> Regarding the patch why to not call transmit_chars() instead of manually
> feed the chip. transmit_chars makes that in the right way (and wakes up
> others levels, if needed, btw).
> Also, do you really need setup new value in the junk local variable just
> before exit from rs_put_char :-).
The original Sun driver zs.c has received lots of fixes and cleanups.
Somebody may finally want to turn it into a generic driver in order to
keep the plentora of 8530 drivers from further growing ...
Ralf
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