i8259.c spinlocks unnecessary
Cort Dougan
cort at fsmlabs.com
Sat Jun 29 07:29:29 EST 2002
I looked through the 8259 code and I believe the spinlocks there are
unnecessary. The code is covered by a spinlock when called from irq.c.
I instrumented the code and after running quite some time my code review
matches what I've seen.
Anyone comment? Does someone want to remove them?
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