Re: ARM i.MX serial: fix tx buffer overflows

From: Konstantin Kletschke
Date: Mon Jan 29 2007 - 11:44:32 EST


Am 2007-01-29 15:37 +0000 schrieb Russell King:

> Is it really worth adding additional code to shut up this (imho) silly
> warning? It's just adding needless complexity to drivers.

As I pointed out in
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2006-November/037192.html
the console gets flooded with this "warning" to unusable state sometimes.

> What happens if a driver is used on multiple platforms, some of which
> support trigger setting and others which don't? Are we going to end
> up with a large #ifdef in every driver?

I don't know exactly. But in addition to the fact, that this warning
floods my console to unusable state I am used to sell software without
warnings. If there are warnings my boss some things are broken.

Konsti

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