Ingo, Thanks for the quick reply. An Andrew's advice a while back, Bob already got rid of the allocate part -- it just isn't upstream yet. Re: changing ACPICA code (sub-directories of drivers/acpi/) like this: >- flags = acpi_os_acquire_lock(acpi_gbl_gpe_lock); >+ spin_lock_irqsave(&acpi_gbl_gpe_lock, flags); I can't do that without either 1. diverging between Linux and ACPICA or 2. getting a license back from you to Intel such that Intel can re-distrubute such a change under the Intel license on the file and inventing spin_lock_irqsave() on about 9 other operating systems. #1 is all pain and no gain, unless the 244 net fewer bytes counts as gain. #2 wouldn't make sense either. If this code were performance or size critical, I would still delete acpi_os_acquire_lock from osl.c, but would inline it in aclinux.h. thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
