Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2

[Ingo Molnar]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> yupp, you're right.  could you take the prototype changes anyway?

i'm hesitant for a number of reasons. Eg. irq_save_off(flags) has to be a
macro, otherwise we move the assignment into the irqs-off section.  
Compare:

	flags = irq_save_off();

with:
	irq_flags_off(flags);

sure, it could be written as:

	flags = irq_save();
	irq_off();

but then again the macro form is more compact.

	Ingo