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
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
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 :
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,
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
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