Re: vgaconsole driver SMP safe fix against linux-2.4.0-test9

From: Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 08:57:38 EST


Yong Chi wrote:
>
> My first contribution to kernel =) Someone please look over this one
> carefully =)

That's a good patch.

It is "obviously correct", it saves seven calls to __global_cli() for
each \n-terminated write to the console and it fixes the
death-with-dual-deadlock problem which Mister Owens has been complaining
about.

James has just posted a big patch against this code, so you should
coordinate this with him.

One point: you should have included linux/spinlock.h rather than
asm/spinlock.h. Obviously someone is already including this file, so
you can simply remove the #include altogether.
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