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Subject: Re: serialize access to ide device
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Llu, 2004-08-23 at 16:02, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> No, REQ_SPECIAL-like approach would serialize per ide_hwgroup_t and 
> ide_hwgroup_t may serialize more then one ide_hwif_t.  See ide-probe.c.

This is probably appropriately paranoid behaviour anyway.