Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 01:33:35 +0100 (CET)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
The only point of the trylock is that it doesn't sleep and that it
can be used within irq handlers and so on...
I retract my statements, thanks for bringing me back to reality.
Yes, down_trlock should thus use spin_lock_irq{save,restore}.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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