Re: old radeon latency problem still unfixed?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 01:44 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  Users report that this patch:
> > 
> >  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00072.html
> > 
> >  is still needed to eliminate audio underruns for Radeon users.
> 
> That's a 2.6.4 patch which generates 100% rejects.
> 
> But still, if that patch helped and didn't throw a billion might_sleep()
> and people were using preemptible kernels then we have a lock_kernel()
> problem.  

lock_kernel() is a semaphore nowadays.... unless those people just
turned that off, at which point.. their problem ;)


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