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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:55:43 -0500 (EST)
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, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, bert hubert wrote:
> 
> > A construct like this was suggested for use in swsusp too to make sure that
> > only *one* request is outstanding for a controler. This was also mentioned
> > to be the unclean way and that there are taskfile interfaces which are
> > cleaner.

[snip]

> Ok so at event [1] we have a ->handler set on cpu0 so we pass that check. 
> Then cpu1 acquires ide_lock and NULLs it out. cpu0 blocks on the lock in 
> ide_set_handler and when cpu1 releases it it re-assigns ->handler. What 
> happens then?

Skip that, i forgot swsusp doesn't do SMP.

	Zwane

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