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From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PnP BIOS driver status
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 20:10:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1015636233.988.9.camel@thanatos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C895E90.696E92A2@didntduck.org>
In-Reply-To: <1015628440.14518.212.camel@thanatos> <3C895E90.696E92A2@didntduck.org>

On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 20:00, Brian Gerst wrote:
> The current driver is not SMP-safe.

That's true.

> It is modifying the GDT descriptors
> outside of the pnp_bios_lock.  Also, you can remove the __cli(), as
> spin_lock_irq() already turns off interrupts.

I'd welcome a patch like the return of a kidnapped pet.

--
Thomas


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-09  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-08 23:00 PnP BIOS driver status Thomas Hood
2002-03-08 23:14 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-09  0:43   ` Thomas Hood
2002-03-09  1:00 ` Brian Gerst
2002-03-09  1:10   ` Thomas Hood [this message]
2002-03-09  2:23     ` Brian Gerst
2002-03-09  3:02       ` Thomas Hood
2002-03-09  1:25   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09  1:37     ` Brian Gerst
2002-03-09  2:00       ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09  1:51         ` Brian Gerst
2002-03-09  2:26           ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09  2:24             ` Thomas Hood
2002-03-09  2:48             ` Thomas Hood
2002-03-09 14:44             ` Thomas Hood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-09 15:11 Thomas Hood

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