Setserial's autosave doesn't work

[fubarbundy]

To reproduce: run dpkg-reconfigure setserial and change it to autosave once or autosave always. Run setserial /dev/ttyS0 to show the current state of your serial port (change device node as appropriate). This should usually show its UART status as 16550A. Now run setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none and reboot.

Result: setserial /dev/ttyS0 still shows uart 16550A

Expected result: setserial /dev/ttyS0 should show uart none as it has been configured to always autosave the last configuration of the serial port and restore it on startup.

[fubarbundy (launchpad-mailtic)]

To reproduce: run dpkg-reconfigure setserial and change it to autosave once or autosave always. Run setserial /dev/ttyS0 to show the current state of your serial port (change device node as appropriate). This should usually show its UART status as 16550A. Now run setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none and reboot.

Result: setserial /dev/ttyS0 still shows uart 16550A

Expected result: setserial /dev/ttyS0 should show uart none as it has been configured to always autosave the last configuration of the serial port and restore it on startup.

[fubarbundy (launchpad-mailtic)]

This has been untouched in Debian since June last year!

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

i encountered the problem - in ubuntu 6.10 - still not fixed.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Craig Maloney (craig-decafbad)]

Hello,

I'm currently tracking a bug in Ubuntu on the Ubuntu Launchpad. It seems
setserial is not currently affecting any of the serial ports on the
machine. Is this bug going to be addressed in the future, or is there a
more preferred method for changing the settings for serial ports?

Thanks!
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[Craig Maloney (craig-decafbad)]

Sent a note to Debian upstream to see if setserial is even a supported method for setting serial ports.

[Craig Maloney (craig-decafbad)]

Forgot to mark this as confirmed.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug.

Is this an issue in Maverick?

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

No response for almost 18 months. Closing as Invalid.