linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Update SCSI target removal path

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Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:58:39 +0200
From:	jthumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	"Ewan D. Milne" <emilne@...hat.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Update SCSI target removal path

On 2016-03-30 18:43, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 09:09 +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> [resend with linux-scsi@ in Cc, my apologies]
>> 
>> This is a follow up to "scsi: Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state
>> to scsi_target_state".
>> 
>> If anyone has an idea how to create a regression test suite for the
>> target removal path I'd be all ears, given the fact that this is the
>> 3rd or 4th patch targeting it.
> 
> Actually, could you reverse the order of these patches, please.  It's
> not safe to revert the soft lockup fix until after the intermediate
> state is introduced.  I'd rather we didn't go through a point in the
> tree where the bug exists again.

You're right. I'll resend the series in reverse order.