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
next prev parent 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
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2002-03-09 15:11 Thomas Hood
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