Re: serialize access to ide device

[Jeff Garzik]

As a tangent...


Per-host synchronization is REQUIRED for controllers which indicate 
"simplex" BMDMA.  And I think for some strange non-simplex controllers 
too (though I guess they could be classified as simplex).

	Jeff



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