> > The bug was introduced between 2.4.17 and 2.5.1: someone added
> > spinlocks instead of cli(), without adding his name to the changelog.
> It was broken as part of the weird cli -> spinlock patch that someone added.
> I'd fixed it but there is no SMP PC110 so I never tested that case.
So someone improved SMP scalability on a driver only
used on hardware which can't do SMP ?
*boggle*
Dave.
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