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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:16:00 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>
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To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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Subject: Re: question on spinlocks
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Hi,

On 1 Sep 2002, Robert Love wrote:
> 	spin_lock_irq(&lck);
> 	...
> 	spin_unlock(&lck);
> 	schedule();
> 	spin_lock_irq(&lck);
> 	...
> 	spin_unlock_irq(&lck);

That makes me understand his intention a lot more. I must have got beaten 
up by the "irqsave".

			Thunder

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