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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, agrover@groveronline.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: ACPI global lock macros
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:43:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031209094356.GA19702@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD5990A.9020908@google.com>

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:42:34AM -0800, Paul Menage wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> >maybe the odd thing is that it exists at all?
> >(eg why does ACPI need to have it's own locking primitives...)
> 
> Because the ACPI spec defines its own locking protocol for 
> synchronization between the OS and the BIOS.

... which can't be written based on linux locks ?

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-09  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-09  9:22 ACPI global lock macros Paul Menage
2003-12-09  9:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-09  9:42   ` Paul Menage
2003-12-09  9:43     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2003-12-09  9:50       ` Paul Menage
2003-12-10  7:45 ` [ACPI] " Andi Kleen

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