Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][ATM] assorted he driver cleanup | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2003 13:12:13 -0400 | | From | chas williams <> |
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In message <20030529170621.GX24054@conectiva.com.br>,Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo w rites: >no, no, I was talking just about the need for HE_SPIN_LOCK wrapper, not the >locking, i.e. couldn't it be just: > >spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->global_lock, flags) > >used so that it is clear that it is a irqsave variation, etc?
i suppose i could change it all back. at one point, he_spin_lock() was 'optmized' away on non smp machines (since a single cpu doesnt tickle the particular h/w problem).
i didnt want a ton of #ifdef CONFIG_SMP in the driver. - 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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