>>>>> "PJ" == Paul Jakma <paulj at itg.ie> writes:
PJ> On 23 Apr 2001, Paul J Collins wrote:
>> Documented? This is **LEENOOX**, not one of your wack-ass
>> proprietary operating systems. Documentation is for slaves to
>> procedure and people too stupid to read acres of C code with
>> function names like __up_irqsafe and __spin_me_again_baby!
PJ> if it starts with __ then you probably shouldn't be using it...
Plenty of kernel code uses such functions, although they are not to be
exported to modules, I believe.
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