Re: i810_audio.c cli/sti fix

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 10:10, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> how about a disable_irq_all() and enable_irq_all() call, which would
> disable every single interrupt source in the system? Sure it's a bit
> heavyweight (it disables the timer interrupt too), but if some driver
> **really** needs complete silence in the IRQ system then it might be
> useful. It would roughly be equivalent to cli() and sti(), from the
> hardirq disabling point of view. [it would not disable bottom halves.]

For the precision needed I think a local irq disable and the lock the
driver needs itself are sufficient, and the lock _irqsave will handle
the IRQ bits