On Wednesday 03 Dec 2003 5:21 am, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:41, Lee Braiden wrote: > The 2.4 version is definitely a no-no. 2.6 went through a bunch > of infrastructure changes to do preempt "properly" (read: without > adding races all over the place) and still, preempt is known in > current 2.6 to still have problems, some generic, some PPC > specific. Using it on 2.4 is asking for real big trouble. > > Ben.
OOPs; I thought I'd already replied to this, sorry :) I'll bear that 2.4 preempt stuff in mind. Luckily it didn't bite me in the ass before :) Thanks for the warning. -- Lee.
