Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753465AbWKHAT1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:19:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753397AbWKHAT1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:19:27 -0500 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:17328 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753129AbWKHAT1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:19:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.c : save_flags()/cli() removal From: James Bottomley To: Andrew Morton Cc: Amol Lad , linux kernel In-Reply-To: <20061107125329.6dc4eb53.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1162816931.22062.132.camel@amol.verismonetworks.com> <20061107125329.6dc4eb53.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:19:12 +0900 Message-Id: <1162945152.3625.2.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 22 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. > 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 - 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/