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Message-ID: <4798B724.8050208@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:04:52 -0500 From: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@...hat.com> To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> CC: linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...hat.com>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] firewire: fw-sbp2: use device generation, not card generation Stefan Richter wrote: > There was a small window where a login or reconnect job could use an > already updated card generation with an outdated node ID. We have to > use the fw_device.generation here, not the fw_card.generation, because > the generation must never be newer than the node ID when we emit a > transaction. This cannot be guaranteed with fw_card.generation. > > Furthermore, the target's and initiator's node IDs can be obtained from > fw_device and fw_card. Dereferencing their underlying topology objects > is not necessary. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> Verified in concert with parts 2 and 3 as well as with 2, 3 and 4, to fix 'giving up on config rom' issues on multiple system and drive combinations that were previously affected. Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@...hat.com> -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@...hat.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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