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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:54:31 +0000
From: "Paulo Andre'" <l16083@alunos.uevora.pt>
To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Can't compile Symbios 53c416 SCSI support
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On 2002.01.28 01:38 Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> It seems that io_request_lock will be completely removed in 2.5 tree,
> so
> there is no io_request_lock in linux/blk.h. This global lock now
> exsist
> only in scsi layer, and it will be replaced by Scsi_Host->host_lock
> soon.
> So i hope this patch will help a bit in this direction.
> 
> 2 Paulo Andre: DON'T use this patch before Jens Axboe will agree with
> it,
> because i even haven't scsi here, so this patch was written only with
> common sence. I hope this will help you.

I see your point. I was also thinking about something along those 
lines. Anyway, what patch are you talking about? Perhaps you forgot to 
paste/attach it to your email?

And perhaps Jens could also give me a word about this?

Cheers Evgeniy and thanks again,

// Paulo Andre'
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