> I really think it is unwise to even imply that this kind of cli/sti
> fixup can be done in some mindless manner, it really can't :-)
i think the networking code is a special case - nothing else relies on the
interaction of timers and IRQ contexts in such a deep way. (which it does
for performance reasons.) I'd say 99% of all cli()/sti() users are in the
'introduce a per-driver or per-subsystem lock' league Linus mentioned.
Ingo
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