[PATCH] hvc_console: fix dropping of characters when output byte channel is full

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:25:34 -0500
Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com> wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> > Its a printk handler - better to lose the bytes than hang the box. I
> > think the current code is probably right.
> 
> What do you think about this change:
> 
> http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-October/thread.html#76830
> 
> This is the original version of my patch.  In it, I simply allow drivers to
> return 0 to indicate that they're too busy to accept data.  It works great
> on the hvc driver that we have in-house today, but it might break other
> drivers that return 0 to indicate error.

If you want to make that change then I guess you need to audit every
other hvc driver first.

But I never understood the point of the hvc layer anyway 8)