Re: [PATCH][ATM] assorted he driver cleanup

chas williams (chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil)
Thu, 29 May 2003 13:12:13 -0400


In message <20030529170621.GX24054@conectiva.com.br>,Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo w
rites:
>no, no, I was talking just about the need for HE_SPIN_LOCK wrapper, not the
>locking, i.e. couldn't it be just:
>
>spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->global_lock, flags)
>
>used so that it is clear that it is a irqsave variation, etc?

i suppose i could change it all back. at one point, he_spin_lock()
was 'optmized' away on non smp machines (since a single cpu doesnt
tickle the particular h/w problem).

i didnt want a ton of #ifdef CONFIG_SMP in the driver.
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