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Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:00:18 +0100
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.15 IDE 61
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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:10:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> I don't even Martin here, the ide locking is currently utterly vile

Agreed.

I'm adding BUG_ON()s to the IDE drivers I maintain where we must ensure
only one channel is DMAing to catch possible data corruption before it
happens.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html