From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 29 0:27:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.alcove.fr (smtp.alcove.fr [212.155.209.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7C937B699 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:27:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiliam.alcove-int ([10.16.110.19]) by smtp.alcove.fr with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1412ZH-0004AB-00; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:26:19 +0100 Received: from nsouch by wiliam.alcove-int with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1412ZC-0004oz-00; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:26:14 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:26:14 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Archie Cobbs , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mutex, SMBUS, ACPI (Re: how to mutex'ify a device driver) Message-ID: <20001129092614.B18336@wiliam.alcove-int> References: <200011230058.eAN0wWI62818@curve.dellroad.org> <20001123114438.C19987@wiliam.alcove-int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:30:50PM +0100 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alc=F4ve=2C_http:=2F=2Fwww=2Ealcove=2Efr?= Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:30:50PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Nicolas Souchu writes: > > What are kernel mutex? A new mechanism for spl replacement? Is it > > introduced with the new SMP? I found nothing in the mail archives... > > You mean you don't read -committers, -developers and -arch? I see... No, not recently. I know that's unacceptable and I could not remain silent anymore with this huge fault on my shoulders :) Before I got my new job, I was really busy and could not contribute at all. Now, things are changing as I have some time allocated for personnal open source projects. Nicholas -- Nicolas Souchu Alcôve - Open Source Software Engineer - http://www.alcove.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message