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Subject: Re: [PATCH-2.5.47-ac6] More IDE updates (BIOS, simplex, etc)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com>
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On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 12:55, Torben Mathiasen wrote:
> Alan mentioned some missing locking in the IDE code, I assume thats what this
> is about, or does it only affect the taskfile stuff?

The locking is general stuff - eg write to a proc entry as the device is
switched from ide-cd to ide-scsi. Switch a device to ide-scsi as you
remove it - and so on

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