From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_tile.c: properly return -EAGAIN
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 19:18:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150510171844.GA20715@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430845888-22164-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 01:11:28PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> We were returning zero if no bytes could be written to the Tilera
> hypervisor console device, but this causes the output to be truncated.
> By returning -EAGAIN the tty hvc driver will come back and try again,
> which gives the semantics we want, and avoids dropping console output.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
> ---
> I have queued this in the tile tree as a tile-specific device, but
> if someone would prefer to pick it up for a tty or tty/hvc tree,
> that's fine too; just let me know.
Sounds good to me, feel free to add:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
if you want it :)
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2015-05-05 17:11 [PATCH] drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_tile.c: properly return -EAGAIN Chris Metcalf
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