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Message-Id: <20090715150809.8fd350b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:08:09 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@...com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
mike.miller@...com, jens.axboe@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] cciss rmmod/scan-thread fixes
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:02:40 -0600
Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@...com> wrote:
> The following series fixes several problems causing hangs while
> rmmoding the cciss driver. In the process of fixing these hangs, I
> also reworked the the logical drive scanning kernel thread to use one
> thread per driver rather than one thread per controller. I also added
> a sysfs attribute to kick off a controller scan.
>
> .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss | 7 +
> drivers/block/cciss.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++--
> drivers/block/cciss.h | 7 +
> 3 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> Andrew Patterson (3):
> cciss: remove logical drive sysfs entries during driver cleanup.
> cciss: use only one scan thread
> cciss: kick off logical drive topology rescan through sysfs
>
So I assume that these are intended to fix the problem which
cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread.patch didn't fix?
Once we get this all sorted out, which kernel version(s) are we
targetting and why?
Thanks.
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