Re: [PATCH 00/10] usb-serial: Switches from spin lock to atomic_t.

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:14:49 -0200, Luiz Fernando Capitulino <[email protected]> wrote:

>  The spinlock makes the code less clear, error prone, and we already a
> semaphore in the struct usb_serial_port.
> 
>  The spinlocks _seems_ useless to me.

Dude, semaphores are not compatible with interrupts. Surely you
understand that?

-- Pete
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