Re: [PATCH][2.5][CHECKER] rtc locking

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:27:25 -0800


On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:19:57PM -0500, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Index: linux-2.5.62-numaq/drivers/char/rtc.c
[... good patch]

Do you think some kind of API safety (e.g. removing *_lock_irq() in
favor of *_lock_irqsave()) would be worthwhile for catching these kinds
of errors?

-- wli
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