From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: bunk@fs.tum.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wowbagger@sktc.net
Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:55:07 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030813165150.12417J-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308132055.h7DKtTkH002249@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, John Bradford wrote:
> > > > 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'.
I was thinking more of not even compiling with SMP set, not so much
compiling but not working. I think that covers the above cli/sti example,
and perhaps there are still drivers which will work built in, but not
compile as modules due to the module redesign.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-13 20:55 time for some drivers to be removed? John Bradford
2003-08-13 20:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-13 20:55 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
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2003-08-14 5:34 John Bradford
2003-08-05 12:42 Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-05 13:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-05 13:35 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-05 13:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-05 14:01 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-06 10:06 ` Claus-Justus Heine
2003-08-09 19:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-05 16:35 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-05 18:47 ` Leopold Gouverneur
2003-07-28 7:12 linux
2003-07-27 16:22 John Bradford
2003-07-25 11:10 John Bradford
2003-07-24 18:29 John Bradford
2003-07-24 18:31 ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 19:31 ` Eli Carter
2003-07-25 10:48 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-24 14:43 John Bradford
2003-07-24 19:24 ` Brian Jackson
2003-07-24 12:20 Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 14:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-24 15:34 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-24 17:32 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-24 17:50 ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 19:16 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-24 19:43 ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 18:02 ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-24 19:07 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-25 10:48 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-27 15:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-27 15:59 ` David D. Hagood
2003-07-27 16:18 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-27 16:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 17:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-27 18:45 ` David D. Hagood
2003-07-27 20:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 20:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-27 20:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 2:23 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-29 19:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-13 20:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-08-09 18:04 ` David Woodhouse
2003-08-09 19:36 ` Adrian Bunk
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