From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:36:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] Status of checking for NULL, convert drivers to new PCI Message-Id: <41F00848.2050902@osdl.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Stephen torri wrote: > What is the status of these projects? > > - get rid of save_flags_cli, use local_irq_save instead There are lots of these that still need work, but we are not looking for a mechanical find&replace substitution of these deprecated functions. See linux/Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt for details. In lots of cases, it will mean adding spinlocks and understanding the driver enough to know what data must be protected... non-trivial... -- ~Randy _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors