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FromBlaisorblade <>
SubjectRe: [uml-devel] [PATCH 10/19] UML - Remove spinlock wrapper functions
DateSat, 5 Aug 2006 13:47:26 +0200
On Friday 04 August 2006 15:00, alessandro salvatori wrote:
> Jeff,
>
>    the new lock irq_lock is still static, but we now have preprocessor
> macros to be included from a header file

Are you talking about spin_lock_irqsave & co? In that case you have maybe 
missed that the removed functions were simply wrappers for spin_lock_irqsave. 
Those wrappers existed to be used in files which can't include kernel headers 
(long story).

> instead of non-static functions in 
> the same module as the static irq_lock.

> Am I missing something?
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