Re: Linux 2.4.18-pre1

Alan Cox
2001-12-28T23:32:58Z

> I believe the patch you're looking for is last seen in the ac series,
> and not merged with 2.4 mainline due to triggering on unaffected
> motherboards.

The -ac change is mostly a workaround. There is missing locking on the timer
chip handling. Until someone (else) fixes that and we prove that there are
hardware locking issues too, I won't be submitting the workaround because
that'll just stop people fixing the bug