Subject: Bug#3762: /etc/rc.boot/0setserial usually hangs machine

From: Michael Shields <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:51:19 +0000

Package: setserial
Version: 2.10-8

/etc/rc.boot/0setserial does a `setserial -W'.  The manpage says that this
does "wild interrupt initialization" (but doesn't explain).  On
daedalus.crosslink.net, this tends to hang the machine when booting kernel
2.0.5 (though not 1.2.13).

Is wild interrupt initialization necessary for some hardware?  Should it be
the default?

--
Shields, CrossLink.

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From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 11:01:02 -0400

Hi Michael --
It turns out that much of the mail about setserial lately could have been
avoided had folks paid attention to the bug report filed by Chris Hanson
in early June, to the effect that the kernel package was mis-configured
wrt setserial.  It is bug #3195.  You may find that relevant to the
problem you're reporting now.

(The fact that I discovered this tells you just how bad my mailbox really
is right now.)

Cheers,
Susan Kleinmann
[email-masked]

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From: Michael Shields <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:19:29 +0000

>problem you're reporting now.

Nope.  I'm using a custom kernel and the serial support is hard-compiled
in, not as a module.

--
Shields, CrossLink.