On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:06:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2005-09-06 at 16:44 -0700, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > > Patch to convert piix driver to use per-driver/hwgroup lock and kill > > ide_lock. In the case of piix, hwgroup->lock should be sufficient. > > PIIX requires that both channels are quiescent when retuning in some > cases. It wasn't totally safe before, its now totally broken. Start by
Then the change to piix controller in my patchset is bad, How about changing the ide_lock to per-driver lock in this case? Locking for rest of the controllers in the system is left equivalent to what ide_lock did earlier.. > fixing the IDE layer locking properly (or forward porting my patches and > then fixing them for all the refcounting changes and other stuff done > since). Can you please point me to the patchset... Thanks, Kiran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
