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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-14 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ 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 19:17 ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-14 19:22 ` Scott Wood
2010-09-14 19:44 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-14 19:25 ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-14 19:52 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-14 19:44 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2010-09-14 20:05 ` Scott Wood
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