riscom8: fix SMP brokenness
After analyzing the elements that save_flags/cli/sti/restore_flags were
protecting, convert their usages to a global spinlock (the easiest and
most obvious next-step). There were some usages of flags being
intentionally cached, because the code already knew the state of
interrupts. These have been taken into account.
This allows us to remove CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP. Completely untested.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index 4666295..eb5687b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@
config RISCOM8
tristate "SDL RISCom/8 card support"
- depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && BROKEN_ON_SMP
+ depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD
help
This is a driver for the SDL Communications RISCom/8 multiport card,
which gives you many serial ports. You would need something like