On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:19 +0900, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:53 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > hm. How do we find out if this works?
>
> I'm not sure anyone has this type of HW anymore. It was the original
> SCSI chip for the old MCA based IBM PC. I can dig through my hardware
> bins to see if I have a card, but I don't think so.
The only way I see is the code review.
Most of the drivers using save_flags()/cli() interfaces are not in use
anymore (such as drivers/char/riscom8.c). There are two possibilities:
1. Remove such drivers from kernel
2. Fix them
This would mean we can remove cli()/sti()/save_flags() interfaces from
the kernel so that any new development does not uses them accidently
>
> > If it _does_ work then we can now remove the Kconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP dependency
> > for this driver.
>
> Theoretically, yes ... practically I don't think there was an SMP box
> produced with this chip.
>
> James
>
>
>
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