Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2010, 21:37:35 schrieb Greg KH:
> > So no need to clean it up for multiprocessor support.
> > 
> > http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29067602.pdf
> > http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/29069403.pdf
> 
> Great, we can just drop all calls to lock_kernel() and the like in the
> driver and be done with it, right?

No,

you still need to switch off preemption.

	Regards
		Oliver
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