On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 03:20:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 1. The irq locking isn't doing anything as the IRQ handler itself is not
> taking the lock
Looks like you reviewed the first version instead of the version Amol
sent after Arjan critiqued that.
> 2. If the irq handler itself dumbly locks to fix this then we get
> tty_flip_buffer_push() re-entering the other code paths and deadlocking
> if low latency is enabled
Yep, still a problem with the revised patch.
> 3. Some of the use of local_save/spin_lock_irq seems over-clever and
> unneeded
>
> Fixable but how about we just delete the file since it has been broken
> for ages and nobody can be using it ?
Only broken on SMP ...
I wouldn't mind writing a new driver (using the serial core) if someone
wants to send me one. I need a multiport serial card anyway ...
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