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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock
>>> Matt Fleming  08/04/11 5:37 PM >>>
>On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 03:22 -0700, john stultz wrote:
>> Sorry if this should be obvious, but is there a reason your not using
>> your own internal lock for serializing the efi bits rather then using
>> the rtc_lock?
>
>Jan wrote the original code that started using the rtc_lock inside the
>EFI bits here, ef68c8f87ed1 ("x86: Serialize EFI time accesses on
>rtc_lock").
>
>Jan?

Matthew Garrett already replied to this - it's (on x86) a requirement of the EFI spec.

Jan



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