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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:00:34 -0700
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To: pgallen@randomlogic.com
Subject: Re: Hang problem on Tyan K7 Thunder resolved -- SB Live! heads-up
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In article <3B772126.F23DB1D7@randomlogic.com> you write:
>Call me dumb, but what was wrong with the SB Live! code in the 2.4.7
>trees? Mine works fine and has since I first installed RH 7.1 on this
>system. The only problem I had was when I compiled it into the kernel
>(instead of compiling as a module), sound would not work and I could not
>configure it with sndconfig.

Well, the fact that it didn't work when compiled into the kernel means
(for me), that it doesn't work at all.

Also, if you followed the other thread on the Tyan Thunder lockup,
you'll have noticed that it locked up under heavy PCI loads. At least on
that machine it stopped with the 2.4.8 driver.

Does the new driver not work for you? There seems to be a bug at close()
time, in that the driver uses "tasklet_unlock_wait()" instead of
"tasklet_kill()" to kill the tasklets, and that wouldn't work reliably.

Anything else you can find?

		Linus