Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:36:40 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: AMI MegaRAID beta release |
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Hello,
> I will look into using spinlocks, but I notice they are only defined in the > 2.1 > kernels. My primary concern so far was to get a working driver out that > our customers could use with an out-of-the-box Linux distribution, > without having to otherwise upgrade their kernel. I should have mentioned > in > my first post that SMP wasn't supported yet. That's the next thing on my > list to add though. Can you point me toward a reference that explains when > which locks can and should be used?
Documentation/spinlocks.txt in the kernel sources.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "WINDOWS - What Idiotic New Disk Operating Windowing System!"
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