Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265530AbTFMU7S (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:59:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265531AbTFMU7S (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:59:18 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:30646 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265530AbTFMU7R (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:59:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue From: Alan Cox To: joe.korty@ccur.com Cc: Paul Mackerras , Patrick Mochel , Robert Love , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , sdake@mvista.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030613195717.GA26221@tsunami.ccur.com> References: <1055460564.662.339.camel@localhost> <16105.3943.510055.309447@nanango.paulus.ozlabs.org> <1055493713.5169.10.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <16105.44765.930081.44739@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1055511099.5162.53.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030613195717.GA26221@tsunami.ccur.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1055538620.6592.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 13 Jun 2003 22:10:21 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 635 Lines: 16 On Gwe, 2003-06-13 at 20:57, Joe Korty wrote: > > Turns out its 486 and higher, so you win. > > > Perhaps it's time to remove 386 support from 2.5? Users > of very old machines can stick with 2.0, 2.2 or 2.4. You have to solve these problems generally anyway, and lots of other platforms have limited locking functions. What it means is that all sane PC hardware can do it efficiently - 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/