Hi
I'm trying to write a block device driver which does some network stuff to satisfy the
requests. The problem is, that the network stuff wants to grab the io_request_lock
which does not work because this lock is already locked when I come into the
request_fn of my device.
I looked at the implementation of the nbd which just calls
spin_unlock_irq(&io_request_lock);
... do network io ...
spin_lock_irq(&io_request_lock);
This seems to work but it looks very dangerous to me (and ugly, too). Isn't there a
better way to do this?
Thanks very much
Reto
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
