Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:34:04 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: time for some drivers to be removed? |
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> > > > > Interesting question - whatever I guess. We don't have an existing convention. > > > > > How many drivers have we got nowdays that failing on just SMP ? > > > > > > > > I 2.6.0-test2 tested on i386 with a .config that is without support for > > > > modules and compiles as much as possible statically into the kernel. > > > > Without claiming completeness, I found this way besides the complete Old > > > > ISDN4Linux subsystem 36 drivers that compile due to cli/sti issues only > > > > on UP. > > > > > > Should those be made to depend on SMP (not SMP) perhaps? They are probably > > > high candidates for fixing if they work UP. > > > > Especially since a lot of the time, 'works on UP, but not on SMP', > > really means, 'broken on UP and SMP, but the bug is much more > > difficult to trigger on UP'. > > Please reread my mail: > "that compile due to cli/sti issues only on UP". > > This clearly disproves your theory.
I was talking about broken-on-SMP in general, not just this specific case.
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