Re: IDE spin_lock bug

From: Richard Zidlicky (Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 15:42:11 EST


>
> > > * spin waiting like this in general seems wrong anyway. can't we do
> > > better? can you sneak a schedule() call in there? anyway, IIRC Alan
> > > commented [about the 2.2.x IDE code] that it needed to be cleaned up,
> > > that the IDE<->SMP fix in place was really a band-aid.
> >
> > I agree, busy looping is always bad. Andre, do we really have to busy wait
> > here?
>
> Tell me when we want to NUKE legacy hardware........SUPPORT
> This would include ISA and possible ISA-PNP-IDE.........

won't make me very happy but if you need something tested on ISA I use it
here.

Bye
Richard

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