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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:39:48PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> They can always claim that reverse engineering works both ways.
> Linux spinlocks can be reverse engineered, or they can search
> the mailing list archives for detailed explanations. :-/

Sure they can do that.  But the point is they don't.  Every propritary driver
so far uses the linux spinlock inline routines directly, may it be in the
object or in the glue code they ship.