Re: Mutex, SMBUS, ACPI (Re: how to mutex'ify a device driver)

2000-11-29 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:30:50PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Nicolas Souchu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are kernel mutex? A new mechanism for spl replacement? Is it introduced with the new SMP? I found nothing in the mail archives... You mean you don't read -committers,

Re: Mutex, SMBUS, ACPI (Re: how to mutex'ify a device driver)

2000-11-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Nicolas Souchu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are kernel mutex? A new mechanism for spl replacement? Is it introduced with the new SMP? I found nothing in the mail archives... You mean you don't read -committers, -developers and -arch? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: Mutex, SMBUS, ACPI (Re: how to mutex'ify a device driver)

2000-11-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 28-Nov-00 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Nicolas Souchu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are kernel mutex? A new mechanism for spl replacement? Is it introduced with the new SMP? I found nothing in the mail archives... You mean you don't read -committers, -developers and -arch? Even if

RE: Mutex, SMBUS, ACPI (Re: how to mutex'ify a device driver)

2000-11-24 Thread John Baldwin
On 23-Nov-00 Nicolas Souchu wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:58:32PM -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote: As a relatively simple exercise in -current kernel programming, I'm planning to mutex'ify the ichsmb(4) device driver (this is a relatively simple driver that currently uses splhigh()). I'd