From: "David McIlwraith" <quack@bigpond.net.au>
To: "Martin Diehl" <lists@mdiehl.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: calling context when writing to tty_driver
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:32:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <090e01c2693e$4a32fea0$41368490@archaic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.21.0210011324110.485-100000@notebook.diehl.home
Spinlocks *could* be used in place, if this is the case. Having not examined
the code, I don't know the implementation specifics.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Diehl" <lists@mdiehl.de>
To: "David McIlwraith" <quack@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: "Martin Diehl" <lists@mdiehl.de>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: calling context when writing to tty_driver
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, David McIlwraith wrote:
>
> > Semaphores may sleep - therefore, they cannot be used from a 'non-sleep'
> > context.
>
> Yes, sure. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough - the point is whether those
> tty_driver write/write_room() calls are allowed to sleep or not. If yes,
> the usbserial implementation is right and it is impossible to do further
> writing directly from write_wakeup() callback (which would be really bad
> IMHO) - if not, usbserial needs to avoid the down() somehow.
>
> Martin
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-01 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-01 10:37 calling context when writing to tty_driver Martin Diehl
2002-10-01 11:13 ` David McIlwraith
2002-10-01 11:28 ` Martin Diehl
2002-10-01 11:32 ` David McIlwraith [this message]
2002-10-01 18:34 ` Greg KH
2002-10-01 19:30 ` Russell King
2002-10-01 21:10 ` Martin Diehl
2002-10-03 6:52 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 9:51 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-10-03 21:36 ` Martin Diehl
2002-10-01 23:20 ` Paul Mackerras
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