On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > ap->host (struct ata_host) already has a spinlock for precisely just that... > :) Right, but do we actually take it? I'm not seing any spin_lock's in ata_piix.c, but I don't know the SATA layers enough to say whether upper layers take it or not.. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html