I have. This is just to get rid of the deprecated functions - most of this stuff is already marked BROKEN_ON_SMP (stallion, serial_tx3912, epca, esp, istallion, riscom8, ftape, pcxx and moxa), and ite_gpio.c is a driver for a UP system board.James Nelson wrote:
This series of patches removes the last cli()/sti()/save_flags()/restore_flags()
function calls in drivers/char.
to what end?
I guess I don't get it. What makes these drivers SMP-safe now?
Or is this series of patches only done to kill off the use of deprecated functions? If that's the case, they could easily give someone the (false) expectation that the drivers are SMP-safe, couldn't they? Well, ftape (for one) is still marked as BROKEN_ON_SMP, but will people know why it's marked that way?
Have you read Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt ?
Maybe later (when I have more of an understanding of serial_core, and major driver overhaul) I can tackle actually fixing them, but right now, I'm just doing cleanup work.
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