Re: time for some drivers to be removed?

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 07/27/03

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    To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Date:	27 Jul 2003 21:56:11 +0100

    On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 21:56, Adrian Bunk wrote:
    > That's no problem for me.
    >
    > The only question is how to call the option that allows building only on
    > UP (e.g. cli/sti usage in the driver)? My suggestion was BROKEN_ON_SMP,
    > would you suggest OBSOLETE_ON_SMP?

    Interesting question - whatever I guess. We don't have an existing convention.
    How many drivers have we got nowdays that failing on just SMP ?
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