Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:04:52 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: James Nelson <james4765@cwazy.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org,
       james4765@cwazy.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/*
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James Nelson <james4765@cwazy.co.uk> wrote:
>
> This series of patches removes the last cli()/sti()/save_flags()/restore_flags()
>  function calls in drivers/char.

I don't see much point in this, really.  Those cli() calls are a big fat
sign saying "broken on smp" and they now generate compile-time warnings
emphasising that.  These drivers still need to be fixed up - we may las
well leave them as-is until someone gets onto doing that.
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