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From: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Organization: Universitaet Regensburg, Klinikum
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:36:54 +0100
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Subject: Re: 2.2.18: static rtc_lock in nvram.c
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In-Reply-To: <3A9A0AF9.17727.45317@localhost> from "Ulrich Windl" at Feb 26, 2001 07:51:22 AM
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On 26 Feb 2001, at 9:33, Alan Cox wrote:

> > browsing the sources for some problem I wondered why nvram.c uses a 
> > static spinlock named rtc_lock, hiding the global one.
> 
> 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....

Also doesn't look a lot like Atari:
 * 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).


Regards,
Ulrich

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