From: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:25:04 +0200

> On Friday 20 April 2007 12:56, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > There used to be a portable implementation of local.h
> > that instead defines local_t as a two value array
> > indexed by in_interrupt(). I'm considering to add that back.
> 
> That doesn't really work in general, interrupts can interrupt other 
> interrupts.

That's correct for hardware interrupts.  It will, however, work for
soft interrupts and similar contexts.
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