Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:55:07 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: time for some drivers to be removed? |
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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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