linux-kernel - Re: [scsi 5/7 RESEND] scsi_debug: schedule

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Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:56:09 -0400
From:	Ewan Milne <emilne@...hat.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	"Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>
Subject: Re: [scsi 5/7 RESEND] scsi_debug: schedule_resp fix input variable
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On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 16:38 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 21:03 +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > 
> > > > +	/* this should never happen */
> > > > +	if (WARN_ON(!cmnd))
> > > > +		return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY;
> > > >
> > > > -	if (NULL == cmnd || NULL == devip) {
> > > > -		pr_warn("called with NULL cmnd or devip pointer\n");
> > > > +	if (NULL == devip) {
> > > > +		pr_warn("called devip == NULL\n");
> > > >  		/* no particularly good error to report back */
> > > >  		return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY;
> > > >  	}
> > > 
> > > Please refer to the patch I just posted, we can't return _HOST_BUSY here
> > > if devip == NULL.  I posted a fix against the current "misc" branch as
> > > I don't see this patch applied, let me know if I need to update it.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm just not sure why the patches are not merged or even rejected.
> 
> Because ideally I want a Maintainer ack.  That's Doug Gilbert.
> 
> > I'm submitting patches to the Linux kernel for more than 10 years to
> > various trees and  I can agree that these are not some  urgent fixes,
> > but  this is the first time my effort is ignored for such long time by
> > the maintainer. 
> 
> Well, OK, I trust martin, I'll override the lack of Maintainer ack if
> you fix as Ewan suggests.
> 

Just to clarify, I didn't have a problem with Tomas' patch per se, it's
just that my patch won't apply on top of his.  I'll submit a v2 if you
want, so you can apply Tomas' patch first.  The problem I'm fixing has
been in there for a while.  Let me know if you want me to do that.

-Ewan

> James
> 
> 
> > Thanks
> > Tomas
> > 
> > NrybXǧv^)޺{.n+{"{ay.ʇڙ,j.fhz.w.j:+vwjm.zZ+ݢj"!
> 
> 
> 


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