Hello all, I've been looking through the sound drivers in the 2.4.5-ac series . drivers/sound/soundcard.c has a few lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() calls, esp. in the read() and write() functions. Could these calls be easily replaced with semaphores or spinlock calls? I vaguely remember emails on lkml a while ago regarding the removal of lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel(), but I'm don't recall what the replacement was (if any). Regards, Frank btw, Sorry in advance if the mailer causes probelms. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/