Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:43:56 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: ACPI global lock macros |
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:42:34AM -0800, Paul Menage wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > >maybe the odd thing is that it exists at all? > >(eg why does ACPI need to have it's own locking primitives...) > > Because the ACPI spec defines its own locking protocol for > synchronization between the OS and the BIOS.
... which can't be written based on linux locks ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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