On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:39:48PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > They can always claim that reverse engineering works both ways. > Linux spinlocks can be reverse engineered, or they can search > the mailing list archives for detailed explanations. :-/ Sure they can do that. But the point is they don't. Every propritary driver so far uses the linux spinlock inline routines directly, may it be in the object or in the glue code they ship. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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