Re: time for some drivers to be removed?

Bill Davidsen
2003-08-13T21:16:31Z

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, John Bradford wrote:

> > > > Interesting question - whatever I guess. We don't have an existing convention.
> > > > How many drivers have we got nowdays that failing on just SMP ?
> > >
> > > I 2.6.0-test2 tested on i386 with a .config that is without support for
> > > modules and compiles as much as possible statically into the kernel.
> > > Without claiming completeness, I found this way besides the complete Old
> > > ISDN4Linux subsystem 36 drivers that compile due to cli/sti issues only
> > > on UP.
> >
> > Should those be made to depend on SMP (not SMP) perhaps? They are probably
> > high candidates for fixing if they work UP.
>
> Especially since a lot of the time, 'works on UP, but not on SMP',
> really means, 'broken on UP and SMP, but the bug is much more
> difficult to trigger on UP'.

I was thinking more of not even compiling with SMP set, not so much
compiling but not working. I think that covers the above cli/sti example,
and perhaps there are still drivers which will work built in, but not
compile as modules due to the module redesign.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.