Re: serialize access to ide device

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Aug 23 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> As a tangent...
> 
> 
> Per-host synchronization is REQUIRED for controllers which indicate 
> "simplex" BMDMA.  And I think for some strange non-simplex controllers 
> too (though I guess they could be classified as simplex).

I think this is exactly the case mentioned (where that level of
serialization is required), so not a tangent :)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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