linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH git latest] drivers/scsi: fixing wrong comment before new_buffer

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Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:06:24 -0500
From:	Lin Tan <tammy000@...il.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Kai.Makisara@...umbus.fi, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH git latest] drivers/scsi: fixing wrong comment before new_buffer_tape()

> > > > Looks true to me for the current versions of the code. In fact it is only
> > > > ever called from the initialisation function that I can see so chunks of
> > > > the code could simply go away as well as bits of the comment. Ditto the
> > > > one in drivers/scsi/st.c
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I am sorry I didn't quite understand. You mean it is true that caller
> > > must hold os_scsi_tapes_lock?
> > 
> > Sorry - I mean what you claim is true - that the comment is incorrect.
> 
> So, I think I'm missing a piece of this:  There's no patch in this
> thread (I presume it's lurking somewhere on lkml).  Could someone repost
> the proposed patch and copy the tape maintainer: Kai Makisara
> <Kai.Makisara@...umbus.fi> to get his input?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 
>

The patch was in the orginal message. I am resending it now with Makisara CC-ed.

Lin 

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