Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 07 Apr 2003 09:58:57 +1200 | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c |
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On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 09:00, Alan Cox wrote: > There are multiple "blocked" fields to deal with. drive->blocked > indicates we can't feed it commands because it is blocked due to > power management. > > idedisk_suspend sets the drive->blocked field so that we panic if > anything is sent to the disk after we turned it off (since it > would be a corrupter). > > idedisk_resume is called on the resume path and marks the drive > as safe to use. > > So if you hit that bug, you did I/O after shutting the drive down, > which is not allowed.
Okay. So the right behaviour is to ignore multiple idedisk_suspend calls and ignore multiple idedisk_resume calls?
Regards,
Nigel
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