At 12:42 PM 10/15/2002 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: "Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy" <maxk@qualcomm.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:24:18 -0700
>
> We don't give names to a functions based on the coolness, do we ?
> ;-)
>
>cli() was cool too.
But we did rename it.
>Just because you don't see that a base handler really is an
>alias for softirq these days, doesn't mean we should delete it.
Dave, you just confirmed that _bh is indeed confusing. And some
people don't even know what it is ;-).
_bh is not a "base handler" it stands for "bottom half".
Max
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