From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] ide: improve handling of Power Management requests
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:36:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906240336.33702.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090623.162402.125952364.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:24:02 David Miller wrote:
> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:35:56 +0200
>
> > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.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@gmail.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.. ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-24 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-23 21:35 [patch 6/6] ide: improve handling of Power Management requests Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-23 23:24 ` David Miller
2009-06-24 1:36 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2009-06-24 6:52 ` David Miller
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