Re: [PATCH] Make ppp_async callable from hard interrupt

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:43:33AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Since there are serial drivers (particularly the USB serial driver)
> that call the line discipline receive_buf and write_wakeup routines at
> hard interrupt level, I have changed the ppp_async code to cope with
> that.  It now uses a tasklet so that it calls the generic PPP code at
> soft interrupt level even if its receive_buf and write_wakeup entries
> are called at hard interrupt level.

Ah, nice.  Does this mean I can take the "make usb serial drivers use a
tasklet to handle received data" entry off of my todo list now?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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