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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Driver for reading HP laptop LCD brightness
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 14:45:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060205144527.GA22751@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1139150502.3131.34.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 03:41:42PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> .. and just disabling interrupts isn't going to work? Ok sure there is
> an SMP issue, but a spinlock ought to be able to fix that properly,
> instead of something this evil....

How do we get the BIOS to respect kernel spinlocks? (On the other hand, 
there ought to be a spinlock there to deal with concurrent access in any 
case, I guess)
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-05 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-05 13:55 [PATCH, RFC] Driver for reading HP laptop LCD brightness Matthew Garrett
2006-02-05 14:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-05 14:34   ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-05 14:41     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-05 14:45       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2006-02-05 21:49 ` Pavel Machek

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