Re: [PATCH][ATM] obselete some atm_vcc members

[chas williams]

In message <[e-mail]>,"David S. Miller" writes:
>This stuff was all against a tree which still had the atm_dev
>semaphore instead of the new spinlock.  Therefore half of the patches
>rejected and I had to put these parts in by hand.

the spinlock isnt new.  the atm code has always had a global spinlock.
i submitted a patch a couple weeks ago to convert the spinlock to a
semaphore (so things would atleast work for now while i decide how to fix
it the right way).  so my confusion is 'new spinlock'.  what new spinlock?
did i miss something?