[PATCH 6/7] tty/powerpc: introduce the ePAPR embedded hypervisor byte channel driver

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Fri May 20 00:22:25 EST 2011


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:54:31AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> +/*
> + * The udbg subsystem calls this function to display a single character.
> + * We convert CR to a CR/LF.
> + */
> +static void ehv_bc_udbg_putc(char c)
> +{
> +	if (c == '\n')
> +		byte_channel_spin_send('\r');
> +
> +	byte_channel_spin_send(c);
> +}

Why do this conversion in the driver?  Shouldn't that be something that
userspace worries about?

thanks,

greg k-h


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