IDE spin_lock bug

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 17:00:11 EST

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Hi,

After browsing through Rusty's locking guide today, it occured to
me that IDE violates the _irqsave rule of passing flags
to a different function which does the restoring. The easy solution
is to inline ide_spin_wait_hwgroup.

-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> * Linux CD/DVD-ROM, SuSE Labs * http://kernel.dk

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