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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:28:37 -0500
From: Frank Davis <fdavis@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@tellus.mine.nu>
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	I would rather fix those non-SMP compliant drivers to be SMP compliant, 
then keeping them 'broken'. Adding the print statements would only be a 
temporary solution.

Regards,
Frank

--On Friday, November 17, 2000 10:20 AM +0100 Tobias Ringstrom
> How about adding an ifdef CONFIG_SMP then print ugly warning to all known
> SMP unsafe drivers? A message could be printed booth at compile and load
> time.
>
> /Tobias
>


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