Re: [PATCH] hvc_console: fix dropping of characters when output bytechannel is full

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Tue Sep 14 2010 - 15:44:57 EST


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

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