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Subject: Re: yet another update to the post-halloween doc.
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 11:53, Dave Jones wrote:

> I've toyed with this idea, but wondered if perhaps a seperate
> document would be a better idea. Ie, keep this one as a
> end-users guide, and have a seperate programmers guide
> covering things like API changes and the likes.
> The latter would likely be more time consuming than the former,
> we'll see how things go..

Good idea :)

> Wasn't there also some issue in various drivers ? I believe Alan cited
> the 8390 net driver as one example.

Yes, its mainly a performance problem.  In the 8390, for example, you
can get preempted with the specific interrupt disabled (from
disable_irq()).

I will get to fixing those... but biggest concern is the remaining
unprotected per-CPU data.  Which, thankfully, is looking really good -
we are stable.

>  > Albert's tree is a fork.
> 
> *sigh* politics. I changed that text after Albert mailed me complaining
> about the original. Something tells me I'm not going to be able to
> please both of you.  I'll mangle it again, and see which one of you
> complains next time 8-)

Sigh, I guess.  The politics should be whose tree is better - there
should be no issue that Michael Johnson's tree is the original.

> All other suggestions added/changed/etc.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback

You are welcome.

	Robert Love

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