Re: 2.2.18: static rtc_lock in nvram.c

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:44:35 +0000 (GMT)

> > It only does that for the atari, where the driver isnt used by other things
>
> Hmm.. are there different nvram.c drivers? I noticed that SuSE 7.1
> loads that driver in i386....

Read carefully

> * This driver allows you to access the contents of the non-volatile
> memory in
> * the mc146818rtc.h real-time clock. This chip is built into all PCs
> and into
> * many Atari machines. In the former it's called "CMOS-RAM", in the
> latter
> * "NVRAM" (NV stands for non-volatile).

The

static spinlock_t

is in the ATARI specific section

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