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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:25:46 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, nms@otdel-1.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is there spinlocks/semaphores available for drivers? 
Message-ID:  <200003271825.LAA94872@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:46:08 MST." <200003271746.KAA26582@nomad.yogotech.com> 
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In message <200003271746.KAA26582@nomad.yogotech.com> Nate Williams writes:
: Too bad is not acceptable.  If we want to support multi-function
: PCMCIA/CardBus cards, we *must* do shared interrupts, and multi-function
: cards are becoming the standard, rather than the exception.

Too bad is acceptible in this context.  Meaning that we can still
support sharing the interrupt, but it might lock more of the kernel
out than if you didn't share.  That's not a big deal in the near
term.

Warner


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