On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> >
> > This puts CMOS Chip access under a spin-lock and exports the
> > rtc_lock symbol. It is for 2.2.17, should patch to 2.2.18.
>
> Nice. You've managed to find places we haven't yet fixed it in 2.4 either
> :)
Yes. There were a few sneaky places that the CMOS was accessed. There
are probably a few still hidden. Of course, some were "who cares", but
once I defined some keyboard macros, I figured I'd use them while I
had them.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.2.17 on an i686 machine (801.18 BogoMips).
"Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of
course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation
obtained from the Micro$oft help desk.
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