Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:47:59 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: plug problem in linux-2.4.0-test11 |
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On Wed, Dec 27 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I think right behaviour of the blkdev layer is to BUG() if the driver eats > requests while the device is plugged.
The device is supposed to know what it's doing. Sure it defeats the elevators work a bit, but again the driver should know best. Besides, it doesn't seem worthwhile to go to any lengths detecting this.
But in general I agree, device request_fn should never touch a plugged queue.
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