From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cyclades: Prepare for relaxed locking in callers
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:48:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080220214847.1a5590c3@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18364.39445.347911.402466@stoffel.org>
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:22:29 -0500
"John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
>
> Alan> Basically wrap it in lock_kernel where it is hard to prove the
> Alan> locking is ok.
>
> I've got cyclades cards, both ISA and Serial. Do you want/need any
> specific tests? Or should I just send you (or your deputy) the ISA
> card for your collection?
At the moment its fairly tricky to test unless you want to hack your tree
up further. The patch prepares for stuff that I've not yet sent Andrew. I
want to make sure we haven't broken anything before sending the small
patches to fire it all up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-20 20:12 [PATCH] cyclades: Prepare for relaxed locking in callers Alan Cox
2008-02-20 21:22 ` John Stoffel
2008-02-20 21:48 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-02-20 22:00 ` John Stoffel
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