linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allow SCSI_WAIT

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Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:23:22 -0000
From:	"Simon Arlott" <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
To:	"Dmitri Vorobiev" <dmitri.vorobiev@...ial.fi>
Cc:	"Fabio Comolli" <fabio.comolli@...il.com>,
	"Bernhard Walle" <bwalle@...e.de>, james.bottomley@...eleye.com,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow SCSI_WAIT_SCAN to be deselected

On Thu, November 13, 2008 14:22, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote:
> Fabio Comolli wrote:
>> So I'm not the only one :-)
>> Please see this thread:
>>
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/22/355
>
> See also:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122538386519971&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122539443509753&w=2

I suggest reading http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/13/75.

Basically, if you want to get rid of it you need to provide
a viable alternative. (Loading a module is not the right
way to call a kernel function...) Then it could be default
'n' and marked as deprecated.

-- 
Simon Arlott
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