On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 16:28 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > + spin_lock_irqsave(&remove_proc_lock, flags);
> ...
> > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&remove_proc_lock, flags);
>
> Why do an irqsave here? Are you not sure what context it gets called
> from?
>
[snipped from original message]
"I'm not sure if remove_proc_entry is called from interrupt context, so I
did a irqsave just in case."
;-)
-- Steve
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