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Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 07:22:25 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] tty/powerpc: introduce the ePAPR embedded hypervisor
	byte channel driver
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:54:31AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> +/*
> + * The udbg subsystem calls this function to display a single character.
> + * We convert CR to a CR/LF.
> + */
> +static void ehv_bc_udbg_putc(char c)
> +{
> +	if (c == '\n')
> +		byte_channel_spin_send('\r');
> +
> +	byte_channel_spin_send(c);
> +}

Why do this conversion in the driver?  Shouldn't that be something that
userspace worries about?

thanks,

greg k-h