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Arjan van de Ven writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
>  
> > Finally, a spinlock is less code (0) and faster on UP.
> 
> Ehm not if you require protection against IRQ events......

Obviously. But I don't, in this case.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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