Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-04 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Tim Hockin wrote: > All, > > Attached is a patch for sym53c8xx.c to handle the error timer better, and > be more proper for SMP. The changes are very simple, and have been beaten > on by us. Please let me know if there are any problems accepting this > patch for general

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tim Hockin wrote: > > spinlock_t sym53c8xx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; > > +spinlock_t sym53c8xx_host_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; > > #defineNCR_LOCK_DRIVER(flags) spin_lock_irqsave(&sym53c8xx_lock, >flags) > > #defineNCR_UNLOCK_DRI

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes
Jeff wrote: > > so, this driver is mixed spinlocks and save/restore_flags? Any > chance this can be converted to all spinlocks? > It's spinlock for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, and save_flags for 2.0. Tim, did you cc Gerard Roudier? He mainains the sym53c8xx driver. All mail archives strip the cc list :

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tim Hockin wrote: > spinlock_t sym53c8xx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; > +spinlock_t sym53c8xx_host_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; > #defineNCR_LOCK_DRIVER(flags) spin_lock_irqsave(&sym53c8xx_lock, flags) > #defineNCR_UNLOCK_DRIVER(flags) >spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sym53c8xx_lock,

[PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
All, Attached is a patch for sym53c8xx.c to handle the error timer better, and be more proper for SMP. The changes are very simple, and have been beaten on by us. Please let me know if there are any problems accepting this patch for general inclusion. Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engin