Locking improvements in preparation for replacing the global ide_lock spinlock by per-hwgroup spinlocks [1]. [1] patch (which is partially based on 2005 patch from Scalex86) for this is also ready but it needs some more audit and testing diffstat: drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 38 ++++++------- drivers/ide/ide-io.c | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- drivers/ide/ide-ioctls.c | 3 - drivers/ide/ide-lib.c | 7 -- drivers/ide/ide-proc.c | 25 +-------- drivers/ide/ide.c | 7 -- 6 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-) -- 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