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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:31:15 -0300
From: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [UBUNTU:acpi/ec] Use semaphore instead of spinlock
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:22:26 -0700
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:

| From: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
| 
| [UBUNTU:acpi/ec] Use semaphore instead of spinlock to get rid of missed
| interrupts on ACPI EC (embedded controller)

 Why not the new mutex API?

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Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino