PATCH: DRIVERNAME SUPPRESSED DUE TO KERNEL.ORG FILTER BUGS

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:16:46 GMT


Add a comment that the irq_nosync stuff needs revisiting
diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux-2.5.66-bk3/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c linux-2.5.66-ac1/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c
--- linux-2.5.66-bk3/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c 2003-03-27 17:13:18.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.5.66-ac1/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c 2003-03-26 20:05:24.000000000 +0000
@@ -903,6 +903,14 @@
* Select the drive, and issue the SETFEATURES command
*/
disable_irq_nosync(hwif->irq);
+
+ /*
+ * FIXME: we race against the running IRQ here if
+ * this is called from non IRQ context. If we use
+ * disable_irq() we hang on the error path. Work
+ * is needed.
+ */
+
udelay(1);
SELECT_DRIVE(drive);
SELECT_MASK(drive, 0);
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