On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Greg KH wrote: > > > > So no need to clean it up for multiprocessor support. > > > > > > > > http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29067602.pdf > > > > http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/29069403.pdf > > > > > > Great, we can just drop all calls to lock_kernel() and the like in the > > > driver and be done with it, right? > > > > No, > > > > you still need to switch off preemption. > > Hm, how would you do that from within a driver? preempt_disable() -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
