Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:54:37 -0700 | From | Anton Vorontsov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/14] tty/serial: Add kgdb_nmi driver |
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:11:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:14:12 -0700 > Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> wrote: > > > This special driver makes it possible to temporary use NMI debugger port > > as a normal console by issuing 'nmi_console' command (assuming that the > > port is attached to KGDB). > > No ref counting, no tty port, no compliance with the tty behaviour. > Concept looks fine but it needs porting to reflect a kernel newer than > about 2.6.18 8)
:-)
I'll look into tty_port helpers, much thanks for the review!
> I would take a quick look at the tty_port helpers and also check v -next > which makes the tty_port mandatory. That'll pretty much cover your needs > for locking, semantics and the like.
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