Kernel-2.4.7.pre5

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 11 03:44:03 EST 2001


On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:21:13PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, Kaoru Fukui wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I had this problem in linuxppc_2_4 bk tree's linux-2.4.7.pre5.
> > Is my fix correct ?
>
> The "correct" fix would be somthing like that:
> /mirror/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.7pre3aa1/00_ksoftirqd-7_ppc-2
>
> But Paul was/is not very happy about that softirq thing...

iirc, Paul doesn't think the first chunk is still needed. The 2nd chunk is
needed for pre4/pre5, but the last chunk looks wierd.  It removes
__cpu_raise_softirq on PPC, which in pre5 all arches still have (x86 is
slightly different then the rest).

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