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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make ppp_async callable from hard interrupt
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 17:01:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031221010152.GA3025@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16356.60597.133074.809551@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:43:33AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Since there are serial drivers (particularly the USB serial driver)
> that call the line discipline receive_buf and write_wakeup routines at
> hard interrupt level, I have changed the ppp_async code to cope with
> that.  It now uses a tasklet so that it calls the generic PPP code at
> soft interrupt level even if its receive_buf and write_wakeup entries
> are called at hard interrupt level.

Ah, nice.  Does this mean I can take the "make usb serial drivers use a
tasklet to handle received data" entry off of my todo list now?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-21  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-21  0:43 [PATCH] Make ppp_async callable from hard interrupt Paul Mackerras
2003-12-21  1:01 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-12-25 10:08 ` Marcel Sebek
2003-12-25 10:22   ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-25 20:59     ` Kiko Piris
2003-12-25 22:09       ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-25 22:29   ` [PATCH] " Paul Mackerras

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