From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wright Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] SMP fix for 6pack driver Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:26:06 -0700 Message-ID: <20050705152606.GI9046@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20050704173042.GA3090@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050704173042.GA3090@linux-mips.org> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Jeff Garzik , stable@kernel.org, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, Marc Schneider * 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