From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:19:43 -0700

quoted text
> From: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@windriver.com>
> 
> The use of cli()/sti() within the do/while was a way to ensure interrupts were
> only disabled for short periods of time while the bulk of the time interrupts
> were free to occur.  The use of the spin lock has eliminated the need to play
> with interrupts in this way while still allowing for IO to be protected.
> 
> The remaining 3 sti() calls seem unneeded now that at no other point in the
> driver is there a call to cli().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@windriver.com>
> Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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