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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:29:17 -0500
From: Willem Riede <wrlk@riede.org>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Cc: dan carpenter <d_carpenter@sbcglobal.net>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Any hope for ide-scsi (error handling)?
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On 2003.03.15 16:11 Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Willem Riede wrote:
> 
> > It may not be elegant to schedule(1) with the lock taken, but it
> > does work.
> > 
> > However, my latest patch doesn't seem to be applied, since in my
> > version I have a set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); before 
> > the schedule.
> 
> Yeah but what happens when a task tries to acquire ide_lock? 

It gets to wait until I'm done.

Regards, Willem Riede.
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