Re: time for some drivers to be removed?

From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: bunk@fs.tum.de, john@grabjohn.com
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, davidsen@tmr.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wowbagger@sktc.net
Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed?
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:34:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308140534.h7E5Y4qc000327@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> (raw)

> > > > > 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.

John.