From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: James Nelson <james4765@cwazy.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org,
james4765@cwazy.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/*
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:04:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050116130452.10fabe52.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050116135223.30109.26479.55757@localhost.localdomain>
James Nelson <james4765@cwazy.co.uk> wrote:
>
> This series of patches removes the last cli()/sti()/save_flags()/restore_flags()
> function calls in drivers/char.
I don't see much point in this, really. Those cli() calls are a big fat
sign saying "broken on smp" and they now generate compile-time warnings
emphasising that. These drivers still need to be fixed up - we may las
well leave them as-is until someone gets onto doing that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-16 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-16 13:52 [PATCH 0/13] remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/* James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:52 ` [PATCH 1/13] epca: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/epca.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:52 ` [PATCH 2/13] esp: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/esp.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:52 ` [PATCH 3/13] ftape: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-format.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 21:10 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-16 13:52 ` [PATCH 4/13] ftape: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-io.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 21:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-16 13:52 ` [PATCH 5/13] generic_serial: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/generic_serial.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:53 ` [PATCH 6/13] ip2: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/ip2main.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:53 ` [PATCH 7/13] istallion: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/istallion.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:53 ` [PATCH 8/13] ite_gpio: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/ite_gpio.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:53 ` [PATCH 9/13] moxa: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/moxa.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:53 ` [PATCH 10/13] pcxx: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/pcxx.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:53 ` [PATCH 11/13] riscom8: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/riscom8.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:53 ` [PATCH 12/13] serial_tx3912: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/serial_tx3912.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 13:53 ` [PATCH 13/13] stallion: remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/stallion.c James Nelson
2005-01-16 19:25 ` [PATCH 0/13] remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/* Randy.Dunlap
2005-01-16 20:13 ` Jim Nelson
2005-01-16 21:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-01-16 21:10 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-16 22:33 ` Jim Nelson
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