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From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: Any hope for ide-scsi (error handling)?
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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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