Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Apr 2003 12:58:14 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c |
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Why?
Drive->blocked N times is still blocked.
I refuse to play tracking games to figure out whose Drive->blocked is whose!
Cheers,
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi. > > On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 04:46, Alan Cox wrote: > > Drive->blocked is a single bit field. Its not a counting lock. Either > > we are blocked or not. > > Okay. We need a different solution then, but the problem remains - the > driver can get multiple, nexted calls to block and unblock. Can it > become a counting lock? > > Regards, > > Nigel > > -- > Nigel Cunningham > 495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand > > Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does > not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth. > -- 2 Timothy 2:14, NASB. > > - > 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/ >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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