setserial problems, bug submitted

[Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>]

I've submitted the following bug against setserial.  If anyone on this
list can give more pointers, or clues, or patches, please follow up to
the bug.

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>

Package: setserial
Version: 2.14-3

>> 2) /etc/rc.boot/0setserial croaked with "Cannot autoconfigure port:
>> Invalid argument" -- extremely minor, as those serial ports are not
>> likely to be used for anything. If this is the same init script as
>> in the i386 version, perhaps there should be a differnt one for
>> Sparc?

Enrique> Again, I know little about serial ports on Sparc, so I can't
Enrique> tell for sure if this is a bug in setserial or not, but I
Enrique> think just commenting out the AUTO_IRQ=auto_irq line will do
Enrique> the trick. Perhaps setserial should detect it's running on a
Enrique> Sparc and not try autoconfig if that's not supported in that
Enrique> architecture. Again, my vote is wishlist (or normal) bug
Enrique> against setserial.

I'm not sure what the problem is exactly.  Either a bad sparc
interaction or a bad kernel 2.2.x interaction.  I'll ask if anyone on
the Debian sparc list shed more light.