Re: When must the io_request_lock be held?

Luben Tuikov
2002-08-08T19:28:24Z

James Bottomley wrote:
>
> dledford@redhat.com said:
> > Again, if Marcello takes my patch, this will become easier as well
> > since it adds a host->lock lock that allows you to get your driver
> > off the horrible io_request_lock once and for all. (Note: I may have
> > to change the name to host->host_lock to make it match 2.5, but that
> > just annoys the hell out of me because I *detest* totally redundant
> > names like that...)
>
> Well, that's just semantics, I won't get into the argument...
>

I've assumed that you also wanted to add that semantics are
quite _very_ important.

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Luben