Re: Any hope for ide-scsi (error handling)?

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@holomorphy.com)
Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:23:04 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, dan carpenter wrote:

> > Apart from the schedule with the ide_lock held, what is that code actually
> > doing?
> >
> > Zwane
>
> Hm... Good question. I have no idea what the while loop is for.

I suppose the magik is in the comments;

/* first null the handler for the drive and let any process
* doing IO (on another CPU) run to (partial) completion
* the lock prevents processing new requests */

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