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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for review] [12/48] x86_64: use the global PIT lock
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:52:03 +0200
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> 
> I was not talking about sysdevs. I was talking about platform devices
> that are already being created for pcspkr by arch code. Now I want
> arch code to provide a spinlock for pcspkr driver to use when
> accessing PIT. What it does it allows to remove arch specific
> knowledge (i.e. #ifdef CONFIG_X86...) from the pcspkr driver.

Ok please send a patch.

-Andi