Re: Deadlock in serial driver 2.6.x

[Paul Fulghum]

Martin Kögler wrote:
> As a temporary workaround, dropping the lock should also work:

This looks good to me, and seems much more reasonable
that changing driver interfaces.

Treat tty_flip_buffer_push(tty) as something that
can call back into your driver (which *is* the case for low_latency),
so don't do anything that can cause a deadlock
when you call it.

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Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd.
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