linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI queuecommand API change for 2.6.37-rc1

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Message-Id: <1289632692.22107.23.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org>
Date:	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:18:12 -0800
From:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI queuecommand API change for 2.6.37-rc1

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 01:07 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On 11/13/2010 01:01 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > I'd like to get rid of done too.  I'm ambivalent on whether we pass in
> > the host or not, but I did it anyway.
> >
> > The patch is reasonably small but there are a few driver prototypes to
> > clean up as well.  How does the attached look? If OK, I'll fold it in
> > and resubmit the pull.
> >
> > I think I picked up all the non-x86 drivers that don't show up under
> > allmodconfig, but it would be nice to incubate this in next for another
> > couple of days to be sure.
> 
> Looks like you caught the megaraid deadlock, but missed a few others... 
>   I'll rediff mine as incremental as discussed on IRC.

Great, thanks for jumping on this everyone..

I will await Jeff's v5 pull request to linus and rebase the atomic_t
host->cmd_serial_number counter + first round of host_lock-less LLDs
conversions patches on this code for the lock_less-LLDs-for-38-v2.

--nab


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