Hi! > I hear on the grapevine that 2.4 kernel modules should use spinlocks > in preference to cli() and sti(). Well I'm not sure how big a win it > is, particularly on a UP machine, but here's a patch for the > SoundBlaster. I've added a spinlock_t to the "struct b_devc" so that > multiple SoundBlasters each get their own lock. After all, each SB has > its own IRQ and IO, correct? > > There also seems to be something here called a Jazz16. This has a > global lock because it looks like there can only be one of them. Should not you initialize spinlock? > --- linux-2.4.0/drivers/sound/sb.h.orig Fri Jan 26 13:57:40 2001 > +++ linux-2.4.0/drivers/sound/sb.h Fri Jan 26 13:58:42 2001 > @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ > void (*midi_input_intr) (int dev, unsigned char data); > void *midi_irq_cookie; /* IRQ cookie for the midi */ > > + spinlock_t lock; > + Pavel -- I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/