does the request function of a bock device driver to be attomic or may it
block? in the linux device driver 2 it says that it must be attomic and
may not block. that makes sense to me since it also sais that the bottom-
half of the driver will call the request function too. but this is not realy
nessesery when i remove all request before releasing the io_request_lock.
on the other side block devices like nbd or brbd do send date using a socket
in there request function.
who is right and why?
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