Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:19:10 +0100 | From | "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] atiixp: Old drivers/ide layer driver for the ATIIXP hang fix |
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On 1/2/07, Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > When the old IDE layer calls into methods in the driver during error > handling it is essentially random whether ide_lock is already held. This > causes a deadlock in the atiixp driver which also uses ide_lock internally > for locking. > > Switch to a private lock instead. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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