Re: 2.6.16.18 kernel freezes while pppd is exiting

[Alan Cox]

Ar Llu, 2006-06-12 am 11:11 -0500, ysgrifennodd Paul Fulghum:
> If a driver has low_latency set, flush_to_ldisc
> can be called from both scheduled work (due to
> hitting TTY_DONT_FLIP) and directly from an ISR.
> On an SMP system, they can run in parallel.

Ok, so yet another reason that the ugly TTY_DONT_FLIP hack should die
forever.

Alan

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