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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, kumar.gala@freescale.com,
	amit.shah@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hvc_console: fix dropping of characters when output byte channel is full
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:44:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8FD0B0.70500@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100914205246.0e35c9af@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Alan Cox wrote:
> If you want to make that change then I guess you need to audit every
> other hvc driver first.
> 
> But I never understood the point of the hvc layer anyway 8)

We've come to the same conclusion here.  I think we're just going to drop
the hvc layer and make the driver a standard console driver.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale


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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: kumar.gala@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, amit.shah@redhat.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hvc_console: fix dropping of characters when output byte channel is full
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:44:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8FD0B0.70500@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100914205246.0e35c9af@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Alan Cox wrote:
> If you want to make that change then I guess you need to audit every
> other hvc driver first.
> 
> But I never understood the point of the hvc layer anyway 8)

We've come to the same conclusion here.  I think we're just going to drop
the hvc layer and make the driver a standard console driver.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-20 18:45 [PATCH] hvc_console: fix dropping of characters when output byte channel is full Timur Tabi
2010-09-14 16:05 ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-14 16:05   ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-14 19:17 ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-14 19:17   ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-14 19:22   ` Scott Wood
2010-09-14 19:22     ` Scott Wood
2010-09-14 19:44   ` Alan Cox
2010-09-14 19:44     ` Alan Cox
2010-09-14 19:25     ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-14 19:25       ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-14 19:52       ` Alan Cox
2010-09-14 19:52         ` Alan Cox
2010-09-14 19:44         ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2010-09-14 19:44           ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-14 20:05     ` Scott Wood
2010-09-14 20:05       ` Scott Wood

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