From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Amol Lad <amol@verismonetworks.com>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.c : save_flags()/cli() removal
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:19:12 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162945152.3625.2.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061107125329.6dc4eb53.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:53 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> hm. How do we find out if this works?
I'm not sure anyone has this type of HW anymore. It was the original
SCSI chip for the old MCA based IBM PC. I can dig through my hardware
bins to see if I have a card, but I don't think so.
> If it _does_ work then we can now remove the Kconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP dependency
> for this driver.
Theoretically, yes ... practically I don't think there was an SMP box
produced with this chip.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-08 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-06 12:42 [PATCH] drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.c : save_flags()/cli() removal Amol Lad
2006-11-07 20:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-08 0:19 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2006-11-08 5:36 ` Amol Lad
2006-11-08 15:36 ` Alan Cox
2006-11-07 22:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-08 5:26 ` Amol Lad
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2006-11-07 6:51 Amol Lad
2006-10-16 6:49 [PATCH] drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.c: " Amol Lad
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