From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272851AbTHEQj4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:39:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270449AbTHEQjr (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:39:47 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:23680 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272518AbTHEQj0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:39:26 -0400 Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed? From: Alan Cox To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200308051242.h75CgSj6028203@harpo.it.uu.se> References: <200308051242.h75CgSj6028203@harpo.it.uu.se> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1060101338.1189.4.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 05 Aug 2003 17:35:38 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2003-08-05 at 13:42, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On 27 Jul 2003 21:56:11 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 21:56, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > That's no problem for me. > > > > > > The only question is how to call the option that allows building only on > > > UP (e.g. cli/sti usage in the driver)? My suggestion was BROKEN_ON_SMP, > > > would you suggest OBSOLETE_ON_SMP? > > > > Interesting question - whatever I guess. We don't have an existing convention. > > How many drivers have we got nowdays that failing on just SMP ? > > ftape fails on SMP due to sti/save_flags/restore_flags removal. The -ac tree has some stuff for this sitting in it but I've not been able to find a tester..