Re: Use of Moxa serial card with SMP kernels

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2004-06-18T12:10:05Z

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:41:32AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> Both Moxa serial drivers (moxa & mxser) are BROKEN_ON_SMP because
> they use cli() to disable interrupts for critical sections.
> See Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt for details.
> They will need some acceptable modern form of protection there,
>
> Is anyone working on this? not that I've heard of.
> Have you tried this email address:
> Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Moxa Technologies (support@moxa.com.tw).

I'd try writing and asking about it; they were very helpful when we
had problems.
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