> Eventually the semaphore will be replaced by the
> spinlock (at least most ocurrences) but I need more than
> a couple of hours looking at the code for the first time
> to do it right...
I think you will find you need both. Look at set_pll() for example. We can't
sleep holding a spinlock and we certainly cannot have people re-entering
set_pll()
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