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Subject: Re: 2.2.18: static rtc_lock in nvram.c
To: Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de (Ulrich Windl)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:44:35 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> > It only does that for the atari, where the driver isnt used by other things
> 
> Hmm.. are there different nvram.c drivers? I noticed that SuSE 7.1 
> loads that driver in i386....

Read carefully

>  * This driver allows you to access the contents of the non-volatile 
> memory in
>  * the mc146818rtc.h real-time clock. This chip is built into all PCs 
> and into
>  * many Atari machines. In the former it's called "CMOS-RAM", in the 
> latter
>  * "NVRAM" (NV stands for non-volatile).

The 

static spinlock_t

is in the ATARI specific section

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