On Thu, Jul 19 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I'm getting ready to do a 2.4.7, but one of the fixes in 2.4.7 is a nasty
> SMP race that was found and made it clear that using an old trick of
> having a semaphore on the stack and doing "down()" on it to wait for some
> event (that would do the "up()") was a really bad idea.

Attached are two patches -- one that should fix DAC960 for this new
completion scheme, and one that corrects the corrected comment in
blkdev.h :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe