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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:24:04 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)
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Hi!

> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> >  Umm..  Linus drivers dont appear to be SMP safe on unload 
> 
> AFAIK, no kernel threads are currently SMP safe on unload. However, 
> the PCMCIA thread would be safe with the patch below, and we could fairly 
> easily convert the others to use up_and_exit() once it's available.
> 
> Anyone using PCMCIA or CardBus with 2.4, even if you have a non-CardBus
> i82365 or TCIC controller for which the driver was disabled in test11-pre5,
> please could you test this? Especially if you have TCIC, in fact, because
> it's already been tested successfully on yenta and i82365. 

Thanx a lot, it fixed problems with my i82365.

								Pavel
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