Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY/serial driver patches for .40

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu May 26 2011 - 20:59:51 EST


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:54:29PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2011, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Here's the big tty/serial merge for .40
>
> /me confused: this patch
>
> > Felipe Balbi (1):
> > tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received
>
> is more than one year old, which I wouldn't care about, if it didn't
> introduce a regression on my mackerel
> (arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-mackerel.c) board. With it in place printing
> a lot of text over ssh pauses the output multiple times for several
> seconds. With this patch reverted the behaviour is back to normal. To
> reproduce one can either cat a few largish files under /etc or just dmesg
> - if there have been enough messages accumulated.

I think I'll be reverting this one.

thanks,

greg k-h
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