Re: [PATCH] atiixp: Old drivers/ide layer driver for the ATIIXP hang fix

• To: Alan <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [PATCH] atiixp: Old drivers/ide layer driver for the ATIIXP hang fix
• From: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <[email protected]>
• Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:19:10 +0100
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On 1/2/07, Alan <[email protected]> wrote:

When the old IDE layer calls into methods in the driver during error
handling it is essentially random whether ide_lock is already held. This
causes a deadlock in the atiixp driver which also uses ide_lock internally
for locking.

Switch to a private lock instead.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
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