Re: Clear interrupts on a SMP machine?

[David Woodhouse]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>  I can't control somebody else's use of `hwclock` or even some future
> kernel module.  

What you actually need to do is use the same spinlock as other users of the
RTC hardware do.

extern spinlock_t rtc_lock;

It is exported to modules for this very reason.

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dwmw2


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