Re: Synced to 2.4.12

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> > Ah!! Yes it is to disable irqs. I will have to disable it. I really wish
> > global_irq_lock was universal on all platforms. Its not :-(  I will commit
> > it out.
> 
> But isn't it needed ?

Hm. The problem is some serial drivers do a __global_irq_lock. It is only
a issue when the kernel oops.

> Attached is the .config I used. 

I see the problem. You have to select one of the controllers. For the PC
it should be "i8042 aux+kbd controller". The i8042 chipset is used on alot
of platforms. Each platform is a little different so we have hooks from
serio to help handle these differences.