Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:58:26 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Fries <david@fries.net>
Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       p_gortmaker@yahoo.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ne.c msleep not mdelay
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> I was just going to make the argument that any task that could be run
> during msleep, could just as easily run on the other cpu in mdelay (if
> there was one).

ISA bus auto-probing doesn't actually work at all well on SMP. The number
of people who have ever been affected by that has always been effectively
nil.

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