linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: fix sense

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Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:26:45 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: fix sense_slab/bio swapping livelock

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 18:51 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > 
> > Somewhat irrelevant since Linus put my patch into 2.6.25-rc8-git
> > (probably worth it for the various issues noted in the comment);
> > but reassuring for 2.6.26.
> 
> Well ... just remember that to merge scsi-misc with what Linus has now
> done, I'm effectively reversing your patch, so testing current scsi-misc
> is very valuable if you want the problem not to recur in 2.6.26 ...

Exactly.

Hugh
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