Augusto> The patch above it's to implement a better usage of spinlocks
Augusto> in misc networking drivers, as Linus says in
Augusto> Documentation/spinlocks.txt you must use the irq version of
Augusto> spinlocks in interrupt handlers. The patch try to do this in
Augusto> some 3com cards and in Donald's skeleton.c (for future
Augusto> hackers reference), but there many others drivers that I need
Augusto> to look in next weeks.
I can't read your patch as it is base64 encoded.
However an interrupt handler does only need to use spin_lock() and not
spin_lock_irqsave() since it is guaranteed that the same interrupt
source will not regenerate an interrupt. So even if the CPU itself is
interrupted it will not reenter the same hander.
Jes
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