linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't change transfer speed while requests are in flight

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Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:12:59 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@...eBSD.org>
Cc:	bzolnier@...il.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't change transfer speed while requests are in
 flight

> +	 * If we are in an interrupt, it should be safe to issue
> +	 * SETFEATURES manually, since there shouldn't be any requests in
> +	 * flight.

There may be error recovery going on from a timeout on another processor.
I don't see how your code protects against that (and the old code is
broken too)

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