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

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On 1/2/07, Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
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