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Message-ID: <4713A9FA.4050209@garzik.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:57:14 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: fix crash in gdth_timeout()
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> A further problem is probably that the GDTH timer is not stopped by a
>> failed GDTH probe?
>
> Indeed. Maybe this is a better fix?
>
> That driver is pretty messy, and this should have been found ealier.
> James? Boaz?
FWIW, the gdth driver was "super-messy". With this latest SCSI pull,
that severity has been successfully downgraded to "messy" :)
IMO some easy-to-fix breakage was inevitable with such a large volume of
fundamental changes.
Honestly, the driver is probably rarely run by people that lack the
hardware, I bet...
Jeff
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