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Date:      Fri, 6 Jul 2001 07:03:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        sumanth vidyadhara <sumanth.vidyadhara@wipro.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Locks in ethernet drivers
Message-ID:  <20010706070154.Q46987-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <060b01c10609$acd72de0$c9cda8c0@sumanth>

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On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, sumanth vidyadhara wrote:

> Hi All,
>  What is the call to initialise,acquire and release a lock in the
> ethernet drivers since all the sample code did not implement any
> locks. The version of Freebsd is 4.3.

In FreeBSD 4.X there is no SMP locking that drivers need know about and
splN/splx has its traditional meaning.

-matt



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