On 1/11/06, Anupam Kapoor <anupam.kapoor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If you are working with 2.6, as per my knowledge there is no way to > > disable all interrupts across the entire system. > > > on a single cpu system calling "local_irq_disable" should be sufficient. no ? > well void local_irq_save(unsigned long flags); may also be used. I would suggest Rajaram to observe the difference in the behaviour of both calls. Nauman > kind regards > anupam > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/