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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	stable@kernel.org, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org,
	Marc Schneider <macke@macke.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] SMP fix for 6pack driver
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:26:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050705152606.GI9046@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050704173042.GA3090@linux-mips.org>

* Ralf Baechle (ralf@linux-mips.org) wrote:
> Drivers really only work well in SMP if they actually can be selected.
> This is a leftover from the time when the 6pack drive only used to be
> a bitrotten variant of the slip driver.

Hmm, it's been this way for quite a while, and users can still build w/
CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=n.  So, obligatory questions...  I suspect it was
orignally marked broken for cli/sti abuse, quick grep suggests this has
been dealt with.  Have the reasons it was marked broken been addressed?

thanks,
-chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-05 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-04 17:30 [PATCH] SMP fix for 6pack driver Ralf Baechle
2005-07-05 10:45 ` Chuck Hast
2005-07-05 15:53   ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2005-07-05 16:06     ` Chuck Hast
2005-07-05 18:12       ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2005-07-05 22:39         ` Bill Vodall
2005-07-07 10:46           ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2005-07-08 20:15         ` SMP fix for mkiss driver ? Bernard Pidoux
2005-07-09 16:51           ` mkiss driver patch applied ? Bernard Pidoux
2005-07-09 23:13             ` Stephen
2005-07-10 12:41               ` Bernard Pidoux
2005-07-11 15:55               ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2005-07-05 15:26 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-07-05 16:23   ` [stable] [PATCH] SMP fix for 6pack driver Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2005-07-05 16:26     ` Chris Wright
2005-07-31  5:07 ` Jeff Garzik

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