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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 2000 20:24:20 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, nms@otdel-1.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is there spinlocks/semaphores available for drivers?
Message-ID:  <v04220817b50557761ed5@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <200003271753.JAA41782@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1000327072156.16642A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <200003271731.JAA41585@apollo.backplane.com> <200003271746.KAA26582@nomad.yogotech.com> <200003271753.JAA41782@apollo.backplane.com>

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At 9:53 AM -0800 2000/3/27, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>      So, frankly, it is perfectly acceptable.  I can't think of a single
>      real-life setup that would sufffer.

	What about things like Adaptec 3940U2W controllers that have two 
SCSI interfaces, and by default I believe will want shared 
interrupts?  Or controllers that have more then two interfaces?

	Or have I missed something fundamental here and this is not what 
you're talking about?

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