Hi, I am trying to learn Bottom halves and I have a doubt regarding usage of spin_lock_bh. what exactly is the need for it can't we use spin_lock ?? For E.G. in net/bridge/br_ioctl.c we use spin_lock_bh to do operations like get and set. Can't we use spin_lock in this case ? Regards, Ajith -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
