I am currently looking at the 2.2.15 kernel tty code and saw that
"save_flags cli - restore_flags" pair are used instead of spinlocks to
enforce critical sections. Would'nt this break on SMP systems? I hope I
am not overlooking something here.
Thanking you,
sameer.
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