linux-kernel - Re: [patch] scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi

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Message-ID: <20080102205306.GE11638@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:53:06 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done"

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:49:32PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Maybe it's not that one suspicious test. Maybe it's somethign else. But 
> that commit was confirmed to break something, almost two months ago. You 
> guys seem to be in denial, and saying "it didn't change anything".
> 
> And no, waiting for more reporters when one reporter has already narrowed 
> it down to the exact (smallish) commit, is simply not good. Either you can 
> fix it by looking at the source, or it gets reverted.
> 
> I was hoping somebody in SCSI-land would actually look at the commit and 
> try to find out what's wrong, instead of all of you apparently trying to 
> say "nothing is wrong".

I've spent about a week of time looking at it over the last couple of
months.  I haven't been able to figure it out.  That's why I'm calling
for it to be reverted, not because I'm "in denial".

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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