Subject: Re: [PATCH] hvc_console: fix dropping of characters when output byte channel is full

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:44:48 -0500

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.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale