Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:45:07 +0200 | From | Heiko Carstens <> | Subject | Re: + s390-tty-prepare-for-put_char-to-return-success-fail.patch added to -mm tree |
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:11:01AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > is allowed or not (1 means yes). Somebody told me that the put_char routine > > will only be called from schedulable context, which now doesn't seem to be > > true?! > > It isnt true. > > > For the console functions we pass indeed 0 to __sclp_vt220_write since printk > > may be called within any context. Is that also true for the tty put_char > > routine? > > Yes, but failing a put_char is perfectly acceptable.
Ok, thanks for pointing this out! We are going to fix this as soon as your patch is merged, so we can avoid further merge conflicts. I assume your patch is for 2.6.26?
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