Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: time for some drivers to be removed? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 05 Aug 2003 17:35:38 +0100 |
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On Maw, 2003-08-05 at 13:42, 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.
The -ac tree has some stuff for this sitting in it but I've not been able to find a tester..
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