patch to fix a few bugs for embedded platforms in kdb

[Keith Owens]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:20:44 -0700, 
Steven Dake <sdake at mvista.com> wrote:
>  This patch fixes two things. 1. The Motorola ATCA7101 has no i8042
>  keyboard controller. Thus when the local arch stuff tries to probe
>  the keyboard it hangs. 2. The 7101 uses the serial controller that's
>  PCI instead of the chipset one. Therefore we need to re-init KDB when
>  we pick up the PCI serial as console.
>Index: linux-2.6.10/drivers/serial/8250.c
>===================================================================
>--- linux-2.6.10.orig/drivers/serial/8250.c
>+++ linux-2.6.10/drivers/serial/8250.c
>@@ -2198,10 +2198,19 @@ static int __init serial8250_console_ini
> }
> console_initcall(serial8250_console_init);
> 
>+#ifdef CONFIG_KDB
>+extern void kdb_io_init(void);
>+#endif
>+
> static int __init serial8250_late_console_init(void)
> {
>-	if (!(serial8250_console.flags & CON_ENABLED))
>+	if (!(serial8250_console.flags & CON_ENABLED)) {
> 		register_console(&serial8250_console);
>+	}
>+#ifdef CONFIG_KDB
>+	/* pick up any PCI serial controllers */
>+	kdb_io_init();
>+#endif
> 	return 0;
> }
> late_initcall(serial8250_late_console_init);

This patch is not against a current kernel.  serial8250_late_console_init() was
removed between 2.6.11-rc5 and 2.6.12, there is no longer a late_initcall in
serial/8250.c.  I do not have the hardware to test this fix, could you do a
patch against 2.6.14-rc* please?

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