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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: switch ide-proc to use the ide_key functionality
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:41:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040817004128.GA32628@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408170231.25725.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:31:25AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > It is also still racy for some drivers because ide_register_hw() ->
> > > init_hwif_data() sets hwif->key to zero - you must set hwif->hold to 1.
> >
> > ide_register_hw holds ide_setting_sem. I think that should be ok ?
> 
> ide_setting_sem doesn't help situation when hwif is unregistered and some 
> other driver is loaded later and takes this hwif using ide_register_hw().

Right - ide_cfg_sem is covering this. ide_cfg_sem is taken after 
ide_setting_sem so how about making init_hwif_data restore that field.

ide_drive_from_key can then take ide_cfg_sem during its checking

The other alternative is to never use key = 0 in the real world but I
see no reason for not just taking ide_cfg_sem during the key to drive
operation. ide_cfg_sem is the read lock for configuration change so this
is logically the right behaviour too ?






  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-17  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-15 15:04 PATCH: switch ide-proc to use the ide_key functionality Alan Cox
2004-08-16 15:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 15:30   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-16 23:22     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 23:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17  0:13   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17  0:31     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17  0:41       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-17  1:05       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 10:48         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 12:06           ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 22:15             ` Alan Cox

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