> In any event, I think that the rtlinux soft-interrupts fits into
> this scheme quite well and should make the irq_lock unecessary.
I don't believe you can make the irq_lock unnecessary - _something_
like that is needed anyway.
Unless you want to make our drivers require knowledge of SMP safety,
something we specifically do not want, it is a huge win to completely
hide the details of SMP from driver writers.
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