Re: pre-2.1.132-2..

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:33:19 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> - disable_irq()/enable_irq() now nests properly, as Alan convinced me
> (quite rightly) that they have to nest in order to work sanely with
> shared interrupt and multiple CPU's and various other schenarios.

The disable_irq depth patch cause my kernel to crash under X at the first
PC beep. In drivers/char/*. there aren't suspect/obvious
disable/enable_irq() misusage though...

To generate a beep I launch emacs and I press C^g.

Andrea Arcangeli

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