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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 01:40:18 +0100
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 02:31:16AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> +drivers that want to disable local interrupts (interrupts on the
> +current CPU), can use the following four macros:
> +
> +  __cli(), __sti(), __save_flags(flags), __restore_flags(flags)

Last mail before zzz (hopefully) - what about
local_irq_{enable,disable,save,restore} ?

With the exception of local_irq_save() which is actually
local_irq_save_disable(), I find these to be more "descriptive" of
their function.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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