netdev - Re: [patch 4/8] hysdn: remove cli()/sti() calls

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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2008 16:41:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mark.asselstine@...driver.com,
	kkeil@...e.de
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] hysdn: remove cli()/sti() calls

From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:19:43 -0700

> From: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@...driver.com>
> 
> The use of cli()/sti() within the do/while was a way to ensure interrupts were
> only disabled for short periods of time while the bulk of the time interrupts
> were free to occur.  The use of the spin lock has eliminated the need to play
> with interrupts in this way while still allowing for IO to be protected.
> 
> The remaining 3 sti() calls seem unneeded now that at no other point in the
> driver is there a call to cli().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@...driver.com>
> Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@...e.de>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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