Re: custom ide driver causes "Badness in smp_call_function"

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:15:31PM -0400, Bryan Althouse wrote:

> I've done more testing with your patch.  When I use it with my non-SMP
> kernel, disk access will cause a panic with a cache error message.  Is this
> patch only intended for SMP, or is this a legitimate problem?

There is a real problem but it only hits on SMP.

(The implementation is a hack though, it makes assumptions about the IDE
code's internal workings)

  Ralf