Re: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c

Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Sat, 5 Apr 2003 12:58:14 -0800 (PST)


Why?

Drive->blocked N times is still blocked.

I refuse to play tracking games to figure out whose Drive->blocked is
whose!

Cheers,

On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> 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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