Re: spinlock_irq needed

"Axel Dörfler" <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:48:15 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.kernel.devel
Message-ID <344637164-BeMail@ibm>
"Salvatore Benedetto" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I followed the BeBook at this link
> http://www.sffjunkie.co.uk/beos/BeBook/DeviceDrivers_Functions.html
> and I'm using the following code
>     spinlock lock = 0;
>     cpu_status former = disable_interrupts();
>     acquire_spinlock(&lock);

Are you actually creating a spinlock on the stack? Because that 
wouldn't make any sense.

Bye,
   Axel.


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