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SubjectRe: AMI MegaRAID beta release
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
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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