Re: [patch] irqlock patch 2.5.27-H4

[Marcin Dalecki]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> 
>>the latest irqlock patch can be found at:
>>
>>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/remove-irqlock-patches/remove-irqlock-2.5.27-H4
>>
>>Changes in -H4:
>>
>> - fix the cli()/sti() hack in ide/main.c, per Marcin Dalecki's
>>   suggestion. [this leaves the tty layer as the only remaining subsystem
>>   that still has cli()/sti() related hacks.]
> 
> 
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> Marcin's suggestions will bring you nowhere.
> 
> You should remove all these locking from ide_unregister_subdriver()
> because in 100% cases it is already called with ide_lock held.

Indeed they can be just removed.