From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757695AbXEXMcE (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 08:32:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755444AbXEXMbz (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 08:31:55 -0400 Received: from smtp111.iad.emailsrvr.com ([207.97.245.111]:38783 "EHLO smtp111.iad.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754866AbXEXMby (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 08:31:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4655856E.4040603@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:30:38 -0400 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Collins CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] SUNHME: Workaround ancient hang on U1's References: <98cd38b5.git.bcollins@ubuntu.com> <91fcd7d6a83321c37f6769164b1b41ce78a07bfa.1179964369.git.bcollins@ubuntu.com> In-Reply-To: <91fcd7d6a83321c37f6769164b1b41ce78a07bfa.1179964369.git.bcollins@ubuntu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ben Collins wrote: > This work around has been in use by almost any distribution trying to > support sparc64 since at least 2002. Without it, sunhme hangs fairly > quickly on UltraSPARC 1's. > > Dave, I know it's not in the kernel because it isn't a "fix", but given > that we haven't seen a fix in more than 5 years, can we get this out of my > tree please? :) Are you sure it is still needed? Gentoo dropped this a few months ago and have no regression reports. http://www.mail-archive.com/sparclinux@vger.kernel.org/msg00418.html Daniel