netdev - Re: [PATCH] Remove cli()/sti() calls from HYSDN driver.

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Date:	Wed, 7 May 2008 15:38:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@...driver.com>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kkeil@...e.de, asselsm@...il.com, mark.asselstine@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove cli()/sti() calls from HYSDN driver.

On Thu,  1 May 2008 16:16:52 -0400
Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@...driver.com> wrote:

> >From looking at this driver the use of cli()/sti() within the do/while
> was a way to ensure interrupts were only disabled for short periods of
> time while the bulk of the time interrupts were free to occur. The
> use of the spin lock has eliminated the need to play with interrupts
> in this way while still allowing for IO to be protected.

OK.  If we still want the interrupt-latency optimisation then we should
switch over to using local_irq_disable().  But probably nobody cares.

> The remaining 3 sti() calls seem unneeded now that at no other point
> in the driver is there a call to cli().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@...driver.com>
> ---
>  drivers/isdn/hysdn/boardergo.c |   14 +++++---------

So... can we now do this?


--- a/drivers/isdn/hysdn/Kconfig~a
+++ a/drivers/isdn/hysdn/Kconfig
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #
 config HYSDN
 	tristate "Hypercope HYSDN cards (Champ, Ergo, Metro) support (module only)"
-	depends on m && PROC_FS && PCI && BROKEN_ON_SMP
+	depends on m && PROC_FS && PCI
 	help
 	  Say Y here if you have one of Hypercope's active PCI ISDN cards
 	  Champ, Ergo and Metro. You will then get a module called hysdn.
_

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