From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial8250: ratelimit "too much work" error Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:26:46 -0700 Message-ID: <1286238406.10512.111.camel@Joe-Laptop> References: <20101002110438.801F49D401B@zog.reactivated.net> <20101004145101.b28fdc0a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20101004150238.fbc1b6cf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1286230259.10512.81.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101004152102.1e04f30a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1286233169.10512.85.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101004161139.2a988b85.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1286235245.10512.91.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20101004164911.c8348e7e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:2657 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754247Ab0JEA0r (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:26:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20101004164911.c8348e7e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Daniel Drake , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Greg KH On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 16:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Look at the file! It all does one thing. It encapsulates a single > concept. It's simply a bad thing to add single-concept > application-specific material into that. Layering, and all that. Take a look at kernel.h recently?