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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:52:33 +0200
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] ps3: Disk Storage Driver
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:13:33 +0200 (CEST),
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> wrote:

> Any chance this will change? I already added a mutex to ps3disk to protect
> against this.

Probably not in the near future. A mutex looks like a good idea though,
since one never knows (and the driver core generally doesn't make many
guarantees regarding serialization).