From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272764AbTHENDy (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:03:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272780AbTHENDy (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:03:54 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:39908 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272764AbTHENDc (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:03:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:03:24 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Mikael Pettersson , heine@instmath.rwth-aachen.de Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed? Message-ID: <20030805130324.GC16091@fs.tum.de> References: <200308051242.h75CgSj6028203@harpo.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308051242.h75CgSj6028203@harpo.it.uu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:42:28PM +0200, 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. >... > I have the HW so I can test patches if someone feels like fixing this. There seems to be an upgrade f the ftape code available at [1], but I haven't investigated on the status or plans to integrate it into 2.6. @Claus-Justus: Could you comment on this? > /Mikael cu Adrian [1] http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/ -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed