On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:43:38 +0100
Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> is it possible on SPARC to drop a spinlock using a flags value
> passed through a function call. I dimly remember problems
> doing that?

It is possible in 2.6.5-rc1, I beleive. I does not work in 2.4 or
earlier 2.6. However, it is a very dumb thing to do, why do you
want to do it? Is there a particular piece of code you have in mind?

-- Pete


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