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SubjectRe: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes
Daniel Ritz wrote:
> commit 18a8bd949d6adb311ea816125ff65050df1f3f6e breaks serial_cs badly
> with an oops, completely killing PCMCIA.
>
> register_console() now calls console->early_setup(). which in case of
> 8250.c (the only user anyway) is serial8250_console_early_setup()
> which is __init, calling 8250_early.c:serial8250_find_port_for_earlycon()
> which is __init as well. boom.
>
> the changelog mentions SERIAL_PORT_DFNS removal which happens to be
> commit 7e92b4fc345f5b6f57585fbe5ffdb0f24d7c9b26. but this got reverted
> by commit 57d4810ea0d9ca58a7bcc1336607f0cede0a2abf. so i'd suggest to
> just revert the 8250 changes as well.
>
> rgds
> -daniel

Is there any flag or sign that init code has been released?

We could use that to prevent init code to be called after code is freed.

Thanks

Yinghai Lu
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