linux-kernel - Re: [patch 25/45] SCSI: sg: fix races during device removal

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Message-Id: <20090401105413U.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:54:11 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	chrisw@...s-sol.org
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	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com,
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Subject: Re: [patch 25/45] SCSI: sg: fix races during device removal

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:15:33 -0700
Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org> wrote:

> * Linus Torvalds (torvalds@...ux-foundation.org) wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > 
> > > I think we could wait a bit to see if any issues turn up in 2.6.30
> > > testing.  I think it should go in eventually, though.
> > 
> > Sure, that sounds sane. But right now it has very little extra testing, so 
> > wait with putting it into -stable at _least_ until after -rc1 release or 
> > something?
> 
> I'll drop it (meaning the three).  James can you resend after they've
> withstood the test of time?

I really want to push the patches as soon as possible. The bug that
the 27/45 patch fixes has been for two months and I saw bug reports
about it again and again:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123841463709919&w=2
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