Re: [PATCH][ATM] assorted he driver cleanup

[chas williams]

In message <[e-mail]>,Alan Cox writes:
>> but on a single processor machine (i.e. #undef CONFIG_SMP) there is no
>> chance that there will be reads/writes from other processors so i dont
>> need any locking OR protection from interrupts.  so the degenerate case
>> of spin_lock_irqsave() isnt quite as dengerate as i would like for this
>> particular spin lock.
>
>Then why are you using spin_lock_irqsave ?

meaning just use spin_lock() or what?