Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:29:38 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IRQ patch for Toshiba Char Driver in 2.5.34 |
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You've just made the driver horribly racy on SMP or preempt systems..
Instead of a blind search and replace you have to find out the protected data and add a spinlock around it, also in the top-half of the kernel. - 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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