Subject: Re: Kernel-2.4.7.pre5

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:29:21 -0400

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...

*shrug*   linux-2.4.7-pre5 softirqs should finally (a) have a coherent
implementation with no special cases, and (b) sort through all the bugs
and API weirdness that Ingo added in 2.4.6-preXX.

So Paul can be not happy but Linus is happy with the API, which is the
more important thing...

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