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Sure! Great! But put 'em in!


> 
> On 16-Mar-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > Actually, I think you only need disable_intr && restore_intr, which should be
> > paired over tight MD code sections, and yes, leaving it ambigious is
> > desirable
> > IMO. 
> 
> Actually, the cy(4) driver uses explicit enable_intr()'s as does some of the
> 386 fpu code, and the pre-spinlock variant of the sio(4) driver also used
> explicit enable_intr().  I'm not a big fan out of it myself, but some things do
> need it.  The manpages look good though I'd be inclined personally to collapse
> them into a single intr.9 manpage.  Also, the actual functions are declared
> in <machine/cpufunc.h>, and I didn't write these, I am just tweaking them. :)
> 
> 


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