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Message-Id: <200906240336.33702.bzolnier@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:36:33 +0200 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] ide: improve handling of Power Management requests On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:24:02 David Miller wrote: > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com> > Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:35:56 +0200 > > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com> > > Subject: [PATCH] ide: improve handling of Power Management requests > > > > Make hwif->rq point to PM request during PM sequence and do not allow > > any other types of requests to slip in (the old comment was never correct > > as there should be no such requests generated during PM sequence). > > > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com> > > --- > > This was tested in the past (with an additional testing from Borislav) > > however there were block layer changes in the meantime so you may want > > to give it some more testing time just to be sure. > > In looking at this change, it occurs to me that this queue blocking > facility could also be used to solve the user SET_XFER race. > > Couldn't it? Probably. This is software, almost everything is possible.. ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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