From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "Bagalkote, Sreenivas" <sreenib@lsil.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"'linux-megaraid-devel@dell.com'" <linux-megaraid-devel@dell.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] megaraid 2.00.6 patch for kernels without hostlock
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:05:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030731090534.GF22104@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E570230C551@EXA-ATLANTA.se.lsil.com>
On Wed, Jul 30 2003, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote:
> Please apply this patch to megaraid 2.00.6 driver for kernels that don't
> support per host lock. This can be found at :
>
> ftp://ftp.lsil.com/pub/linux-megaraid/drivers/version-2.00.6/
It's easily possible to keep the impact of maintaining a driver across
such kernels a lot smaller, by simply using the same lock in the
spin_lock calls and just assign that lock to adapter->lock or
io_request_lock depending on the kernel.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-31 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-30 21:00 [ANNOUNCE] megaraid 2.00.6 patch for kernels without hostlock Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2003-07-31 9:05 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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2003-07-31 21:10 Mukker, Atul
2003-07-31 23:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-01 5:49 ` Jens Axboe
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