Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][ATM] assorted he driver cleanup | Date | Sun, 01 Jun 2003 18:58:26 -0400 | From | chas williams <> |
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In message <1054497613.5863.4.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>,Alan Cox writes: >> but on a single processor machine (i.e. #undef CONFIG_SMP) there is no >> chance that there will be reads/writes from other processors so i dont >> need any locking OR protection from interrupts. so the degenerate case >> of spin_lock_irqsave() isnt quite as dengerate as i would like for this >> particular spin lock. > >Then why are you using spin_lock_irqsave ?
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