Re: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c

Nigel Cunningham (ncunningham@clear.net.nz)
Sun, 06 Apr 2003 07:25:12 +1200

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

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