Help with serial synths in 4.X kernels

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

What is outreachy intern?

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> covici at ccs.covici.com, on Tue 23 Feb 2016 10:05:22 -0500, wrote:
> > Do you have the serialio.c patched to comment out the return null in
> > around line 42?
> 
> Just wondering...
> 
> Is it known that passing
> 
> 8250.nr_uarts=0
> 
> as a kernel command-line parameter has actually the same effect?  It'll
> just prevent the normal serial driver from taking the ports, and thus
> speakup will not have any trouble accessing them.
> 
> About the patches I have sent to the linux kernel mailing list, only the
> attached one is needed to fix serial port access.
> 
> About proper serial port access, somebody from the Outreachy intern
> program is currently having a look.
> 
> Samuel
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