On Thu, 31 May 2001, Tim Hockin wrote:
> All,
>
> Attached is a patch for sym53c8xx.c to handle the error timer better, and
> be more proper for SMP. The changes are very simple, and have been beaten
> on by us. Please let me know if there are any problems accepting this
> patch for general
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tim Hockin wrote:
> > spinlock_t sym53c8xx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> > +spinlock_t sym53c8xx_host_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> > #defineNCR_LOCK_DRIVER(flags) spin_lock_irqsave(&sym53c8xx_lock,
>flags)
> > #defineNCR_UNLOCK_DRI
Jeff wrote:
>
> so, this driver is mixed spinlocks and save/restore_flags? Any
> chance this can be converted to all spinlocks?
>
It's spinlock for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, and save_flags for 2.0.
Tim, did you cc Gerard Roudier? He mainains the sym53c8xx driver. All
mail archives strip the cc list :
Tim Hockin wrote:
> spinlock_t sym53c8xx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> +spinlock_t sym53c8xx_host_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> #defineNCR_LOCK_DRIVER(flags) spin_lock_irqsave(&sym53c8xx_lock, flags)
> #defineNCR_UNLOCK_DRIVER(flags)
>spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sym53c8xx_lock,
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