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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:57:39 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] ppbus/ppc locking
Message-ID:  <200811201357.39868.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4924AC27.3090302@incunabulum.net>
References:  <200811191503.02192.jhb@freebsd.org> <4924AC27.3090302@incunabulum.net>

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On Wednesday 19 November 2008 07:15:35 pm Bruce Simpson wrote:
> John,
> 
> Thanks for this.
> 
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > Please test!  This is the last non-MPSAFE network driver at this point.  
This 
> > ...
> >   
> 
> My only box using lpt(4) is running 7.1-PRERELEASE, this patch should 
> backport, yes?

You will need to grab sys/dev/ppc/* and sys/dev/ppbus/* from HEAD since I've 
committed some style fixes and had changed the interrupt handling in HEAD 
(and have changed it again in this patch).

> It is a right pain in the arse when something happens with my venerable 
> GCC Elite 600, e.g. a paper jam, and the entire box grinds to a halt 
> because lpt_intr() was called with Giant held.
> 
> cheers
> BMS
> 
> 



-- 
John Baldwin



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