Re: [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A1

Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21T20:07:15Z

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:

> - William Irvin and Zwane Mwaikambo have been testing it, found a
> deadlock, now fixed. (yay)

good.

> - Zwane reports that serial console doesn't work for him. Oddly,
> it works here on a Netwinder (which has all the bits'n'pieces to
> be close enough to a PC with a PCI bus, southbridge, and standard
> serial ports at standard IO bases and standard IRQs) so I'm at a
> loss why this works for me but not Zwane.

i can test this, on SMP as well.

> I'm just sorting out a 2.5.26-rmk1 release, then update to 2.5.27, make
> sure it builds, and then I'll be sending the serial stuff to Linus.
> Until then, I've no idea if any patch I create will apply to 2.5.27.

okay - since the IRQ changes do not (suppose to) affect UP functionality,
there's time to get it fixed.

Ingo