Commit 3e1d2624 authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt thinko

The 3 lines being deleted are repeated from above (in same file).
I pulled the 2 lines being added from an earlier version of the patch.
parent d61c31bb
......@@ -121,9 +121,8 @@ local_irq_restore can restore into both irqs on and irqs off state.)
another related change is that synchronize_irq() now takes a parameter:
synchronize_irq(irq). This change too has the purpose of making SMP
to make the transition easier, we've still kept the cli(), sti(),
save_flags() and restore_flags() macros defined on UP systems - but
their usage will be phased out until the 2.6 kernel is released.
synchronization more lightweight - this way you can wait for your own
interrupt handler to finish, no need to wait for other IRQ sources.
why were these changes done? The main reason was the architectural burden
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