From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] st: remove st_mutex Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:06:00 +0400 Message-ID: <1348477560.2467.23.camel@dabdike> References: <504E6B7C.9010407@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:35811 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751635Ab2IXJGF (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2012 05:06:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <504E6B7C.9010407@suse.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Lee Duncan Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Kai =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E4kisara?= , Hannes Reinecke On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 15:36 -0700, Lee Duncan wrote: > From: Hannes Reinecke > > The st_mutex was created when the BKL was removed, and > prevents simultaneous st_open calls. It is better to > protect just the necessary data. > > Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke > Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan That should be Signed-off-by since you sent the patch to me. Signoffs have to follow the chain of transmission. I've assumed this was just a mistype. James