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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, sandr8@gmail.com
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 10/19] UML - Remove spinlock wrapper functions
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 13:47:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608051347.26926.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <517e86fb0608040600n52f36b8ci60f4e219f8cd4b5a@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 04 August 2006 15:00, alessandro salvatori wrote:
> Jeff,
>
>    the new lock irq_lock is still static, but we now have preprocessor
> macros to be included from a header file

Are you talking about spin_lock_irqsave & co? In that case you have maybe 
missed that the removed functions were simply wrappers for spin_lock_irqsave. 
Those wrappers existed to be used in files which can't include kernel headers 
(long story).

> instead of non-static functions in 
> the same module as the static irq_lock.

> Am I missing something?
-- 
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-05 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-07  0:33 [uml-devel] [PATCH 10/19] UML - Remove spinlock wrapper functions Jeff Dike
2006-08-04 13:00 ` alessandro salvatori
2006-08-04 14:14   ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-05 11:47   ` Blaisorblade [this message]

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