Re: [PATCH][ATM] obselete some atm_vcc members

From: chas williams (chas@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 19:50:05 EST


In message <20030309.133453.05058422.davem@redhat.com>,"David S. Miller" writes:
>This stuff was all against a tree which still had the atm_dev
>semaphore instead of the new spinlock. Therefore half of the patches
>rejected and I had to put these parts in by hand.

the spinlock isnt new. the atm code has always had a global spinlock.
i submitted a patch a couple weeks ago to convert the spinlock to a
semaphore (so things would atleast work for now while i decide how to fix
it the right way). so my confusion is 'new spinlock'. what new spinlock?
did i miss something?
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