Re: Alcatel speedtouch USB driver and SMP.

[Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>]

At 09:02 AM 12/16/2002 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Greg" == Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
>    >>  drivers/usb/misc/speedtouch.c
>
>    Greg> Ah good, you're using one that the source is available for
>    Greg> :) I think the developer has said it will work on SMP
>    Greg> machines, but what problems are you having, and have you
>    Greg> asked the author of the code?
>
>I haven't any problems yet, as I haven't bought the modem yet. I don't
>want to if it is going to give me problems.
>
>The 1.4 version of the driver (before integration into 2.5 series
>kernel), is supposed to not work with SMP kernels (that's why I asked
>in the first place). So I contacted the author (Johan Verrept) to ask on the status,
>and he said he thought it was probably OK now, as it was in the 2.5
>kernel.
>
>So I grabbed the 2.5.51 sources and looked at the see, and could see
>no mention of a change to fix SMP. So I then contacted Richard Purdie,
>who was the last person to make a change to the source. He said he
>didn't know.
>
>So, is anyone using it on SMP?
I was, until I got Bluetooth DSL access point :).

I used to have PPPoE setup with Speedtouch modem on my Dual Athlon box. It was running 
2.4.18 at that time. Most of the SMP problems were in the ATM code. I fixed some of them 
and my patches went into 2.4.19. I did some hack to the driver itself but those
were minor.

Max