Re: IDE hackery: lock fixes and hotplug controller stuff

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 20:23, Alan Cox wrote:

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 07:16:17PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

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On Tuesday 10 August 2004 18:19, Alan Cox wrote:

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-	Remove unsafe and essentially unfixable proc code for flipping
	between ide-cd and ide-scsi. Its no longer relevant with SG_IO.

Shouldn't we deprecate it first...?

It doesn't work now so it clearly isnt being used 8). We hold the lock
because its a proc function and we then replace the proc functions in the
attach method -> deadlock. It is also incredibly hard to fix without a
major rewrite.

It is a correct analysis for /proc/ide/hdx/settings:ide-scsi but not 
for /proc/ide/hdx/driver which works just fine (modulo being racy)
and your patch removes both interfaces...

Bartlomiej