[ Sorry for the late reply. ]

On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > -	while (!hwgroup->busy) {
> > -		hwgroup->busy = 1;
> > -		/* for atari only */
> > -		ide_get_lock(ide_intr, hwgroup);
> > +	while (!ide_lock_hwgroup(hwgroup)) {
> 
> Something I've run into while working on the locking stuff: what happens if the 
> above ide_lock_hwgroup(hwgroup) sleeps for long enough to trigger the request 
> timer? 

AFAICS this happens before the hwgroup timeout timer is armed and IDE is not
using block layer request timers yet so we should be fine here..

Thanks,
Bart