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Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 20:37:55 -0500
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: PnP BIOS driver status
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > The current driver is not SMP-safe.  It is modifying the GDT descriptors
> > outside of the pnp_bios_lock.  Also, you can remove the __cli(), as
> > spin_lock_irq() already turns off interrupts.
> 
> The GDT descriptors are private to the PNP BIOS and constant values once
> set up. No PnPBIOS call is made before the configuration is done.
> 
> Seems ok to me - or am I missing something ?

Two user processes calling functions through /proc...

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						Brian Gerst
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