Re: [PATCH 25/69] TTY: con3215, remove tasklet for tty_wakeup

[Jiri Slaby]

On 04/09/2012 08:27 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> On 04/03/2012 07:42 AM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:54:09PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>>> tty_wakeup is safe to be called from all contexts. No need to schedule
>>>> a tasklet for that. Let us call it directly like in other drivers.
>>>>
>>>> And delete the tasklet completely.
>>>
>>> Your patch actually reverts Martin's recent commit 656d912537
>>> "[S390] 3215 deadlock with tty_wakeup".
>>> I'm quite sure the reason for the deadlock still exists.
>>> Unfortunately the commit doesn't contain the call chain that
>>> led to fix.
>>
>> Ok, I would really appreciate the trace.
>>
>> If this is really an issue, we should provide a helper in the TTY layer
>> like tty_schedule_wakeup.
> 
> Jiri, should I not apply this patch?

Yes, please skip it until this is sorted out. And also the other con3215
patches if they don't apply cleanly now.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs


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