There's a really nice console helper (esp. for virtual console drivers) in drivers/char/hvc_console.c. It has only ever been used for PowerPC, though, so it uses NO_IRQ which is only defined there. Let's fix that so it's more widely useful. By, say, lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> =================================================================== --- a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ #define HVC_MINOR 0 #define TIMEOUT (10) + +#ifndef NO_IRQ +#define NO_IRQ 0 +#endif /* * Wait this long per iteration while trying to push buffered data to the