Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 06:24:04 EST

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Hi!

> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> > Umm.. Linus drivers dont appear to be SMP safe on unload
>
> AFAIK, no kernel threads are currently SMP safe on unload. However,
> the PCMCIA thread would be safe with the patch below, and we could fairly
> easily convert the others to use up_and_exit() once it's available.
>
> Anyone using PCMCIA or CardBus with 2.4, even if you have a non-CardBus
> i82365 or TCIC controller for which the driver was disabled in test11-pre5,
> please could you test this? Especially if you have TCIC, in fact, because
> it's already been tested successfully on yenta and i82365.

Thanx a lot, it fixed problems with my i82365.

Pavel

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