corruption with mtdblock

[David Woodhouse]

nico at cam.org said:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > OK. Upon prodding, it seems that I'd misunderstood beforehand. You
> > _CAN_ sleep in a standard request function; you don't need to have a 
> > kernel thread. 

> Are you certain of that?

> One place where the request function is called is within
> generic_unplug_device() which is called through a task queue (see
> blk_init_queue()).

I believe the tq_disk task queue is always run from process context. 

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