Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 30 Dec 2001 15:02:47 +0100 (CET) | | From | Dave Jones <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH, COMPILE-FIX, TYPO] drivers/char/pc110pad.c |
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The bug was introduced between 2.4.17 and 2.5.1: someone added > > spinlocks instead of cli(), without adding his name to the changelog. > It was broken as part of the weird cli -> spinlock patch that someone added. > I'd fixed it but there is no SMP PC110 so I never tested that case.
So someone improved SMP scalability on a driver only used on hardware which can't do SMP ?
*boggle*
Dave.
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