Messages in this thread | | | From | Bruce Marshall <> | Subject | Re: Use of Moxa serial card with SMP kernels | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:56:55 -0400 |
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On Friday 18 June 2004 08:09 am, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:41:32AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > Both Moxa serial drivers (moxa & mxser) are BROKEN_ON_SMP because > > they use cli() to disable interrupts for critical sections. > > See Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt for details. > > They will need some acceptable modern form of protection there, > > > > Is anyone working on this? not that I've heard of. > > Have you tried this email address: > > Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Moxa Technologies (support@moxa.com.tw). > > I'd try writing and asking about it; they were very helpful when we > had problems.
I agree.... I have written to them - they have responded already asking for more info - and I'm waiting to hear back from them. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/18/04 08:56 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder" -Former Chicago Mayor Daley during 1968 convention - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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