Re: [PATCH] Add missing spin_unlock_irq to ide.c (244ac16)

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Fri, 25 May 2001 23:11:23 +0200


On Fri, May 25 2001, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> (I forgot to cc l-k on this one when it went to andre.)
>
> Hi.
>
> This patch adds a spin_unlock_irqsave to ide_spin_wait_hwgroup as
> reported by the Stanford team way back. It applies against 244ac16.
>
>
> --- linux-244-ac16-clean/drivers/ide/ide.c Fri May 25 21:11:08 2001
> +++ linux-244-ac16/drivers/ide/ide.c Fri May 25 22:46:43 2001
> @@ -2362,6 +2362,8 @@
> __restore_flags(lflags); /* local CPU only */
> spin_lock_irq(&io_request_lock);
> }
> +
> + spin_unlock_irq(&io_request_lock);
> return 0;
> }

This isn't right. Granted the locking isn't straight forward here, but
take a look at ide_write_setting -> ide_spin_wait_hwgroup and the
latters return value.

BTW, also try and follow local style when making such changes.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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