Hello,

Okay, after some time, i now have a new i2o_block patch, which solves 
several bugs:

- I2O_LOCK was often called with c->unit, which addresses the
   controller, and not the device (dev->index). This wasn't discovered
   yet, because each device uses the same queue on the same controller,
   and there was only one controller.
- the cleanup function for gendisk (del_gendisk) has a bug, if the
   queue is shared between different devices. To workaround the queue is
   removed before. Is this okay, because blk_unregister_queue will not be
   executed.
- redundant code removed in module initialization and remove, use
   i2ob_new_device and i2ob_del_device instead.
- added all changes from Jens Axboe (also removed the atomic, which
   is not needed, because the spinlock is already held, i think).

The patch is as always also available at 
http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/i2o_block-cleanup.patch

Thank you for your help...



Best regards,


Markus Lidel
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