Re: [PATCH 8/11] usbserial: pl2303: Ports tty functions.

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:03:14AM -0300, Luiz Fernando N.Capitulino wrote:
>   2. The new pl2303's set_termios() can (still) sleep. Serial Core's
>      documentation says that that method must not sleep, but I couldn't find
>      where in the Serial Core code it's called in atomic context. So, is this
>      still true? Isn't the Serial Core's documentation out of date?

If this is true then we should just stop the port right now, as the USB
devices can not handle this.  They need to be able to sleep to
accomplish this functionality.

Russell, is this a requirement of the serial layer?  Why?

thanks,

greg k-h
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