Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 20:27, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
>
>>- Fixup cmd640 fix by LT.
>
>
> The CMD640 fix is wrong. You must take pci_lock to protected the cmd640
> pci access functions. You also need to check if conf1/conf2 is available
> otherwise you will crash some systems when the driver init runs (found
> by Justin Gibbs at Adaptec). I sent Linus the proper patch for this a
> few days ago and cc'd the list.
>
> Basically conf1/conf2 is protected elsewhere in the kernel via arch
> specific locks and via a higher level config lock. Since the non x86
> folks use CMD640 we have to take the higher level lock.
Yes I know. However I see the bk-tree drifting and therefore I have
postponed the integration of your patch a bit. The chunk above I did
immediately after 2.5.29 release. Hope this explains. OK?
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