Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:55:29 +0100
From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Message-Id: <200308132055.h7DKtTkH002249@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
To: bunk@fs.tum.de, davidsen@tmr.com
Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed?
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wowbagger@sktc.net
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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> > > Interesting question - whatever I guess. We don't have an existing convention.
> > > How many drivers have we got nowdays that failing on just SMP ?
> > 
> > I 2.6.0-test2 tested on i386 with a .config that is without support for
> > modules and compiles as much as possible statically into the kernel.
> > Without claiming completeness, I found this way besides the complete Old
> > ISDN4Linux subsystem 36 drivers that compile due to cli/sti issues only
> > on UP.
>
> Should those be made to depend on SMP (not SMP) perhaps? They are probably
> high candidates for fixing if they work UP.

Especially since a lot of the time, 'works on UP, but not on SMP',
really means, 'broken on UP and SMP, but the bug is much more
difficult to trigger on UP'.

John.
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