linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv4 09/17] pps: don't disable interrupts when using spin locks

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Date:	Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:09:47 +0100
From:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
To:	Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@....cs.msu.su>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@...msu.su>,
	linuxpps@...enneenne.com, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 09/17] pps: don't disable interrupts when using spin
 locks

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:01:02PM +0300, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> Now all PPS spin locks are never used in interrupt context so we can
> safely replace spin_lock_irq*/spin_unlock_irq* with plain
> spin_lock/spin_unlock.

This patch must be delayed till the previous one is not fixed.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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