On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 01:21:12PM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote: > Hi, > > The v2 renames set_selection() and do_set_selection() to following > more explicit names: > > set_selection_user() /* includes copying data from user space */ > set_selection_kernel() /* no copying from user space */ > > The patches also update references to set_selection() to be > set_selection_user(). > > Original intro: > > Speakup's selection functionality parallels that of > drivers/tty/vt/selection.c. This patch set replaces speakup's > implementation with calls to vt's selection code. This is one of the > remaining items in our TODO file and it's needed for moving speakup out > of staging. > > Please note that in speakup selection is set inside interrupt context of > keyboard handler. Set selection code in vt happens in process context > and hence expects ability to sleep. To address this, there were two > options: farm out speakup's set selection into a work_struct thread, or > create atomic version of vt's set_selection. These patches implement > the former option. Very nice, both now queued up! thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
