Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:23:04 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: Any hope for ide-scsi (error handling)? |
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, dan carpenter wrote:
> > Apart from the schedule with the ide_lock held, what is that code actually > > doing? > > > > Zwane > > Hm... Good question. I have no idea what the while loop is for.
I suppose the magik is in the comments;
/* first null the handler for the drive and let any process * doing IO (on another CPU) run to (partial) completion * the lock prevents processing new requests */
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