Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc2

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 09:46:00 EST


On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > - Make some erroneously global spinlocks
> > static (David C. Hansen)
>
> This is a release-candidate patch??? Looks like cleanup to me.

Jeff,

This patch is obviously correct and it cant break anything.

> > - More __devexit_p fixes (Daniel T. Chen)
>
> This patch is 100% wrong. The hardware is question is not hotplug
> hardware, so therefore should not be marked with __devexit. I strongly
> urge that you revert this patch... none of the affected drivers could
> be called popular at any rate.

Agreed. I'll remove it.

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