linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI host lock push-down

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Message-ID: <8762w9thpt.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:56:46 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI host lock push-down

Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> writes:

> There were some previous attempts to push the SCSI host lock down
> into each driver.  In both cases, authors working independently of
> each other managed to both (a) skip some drivers that need updates, and,
> (b) get the locking wrong in some cases and/or rewrite the locking.

I took a quick look and there are no obvious problems in this 
version (except of lack of cc to previous contributors)

-Andi

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