Re: io_request_lock question (2.2)

[Alan Cox]

> Yes, and I believe that this is what's broken about the SCSI midlayer. The the
> io_request_lock cannot be completely released in a SCSI HBA because the flags

You can drop it with spin_unlock_irq and that is fine. I do that with no problems
in the I2O scsi driver for example

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