Re: [PATCH] mptsas: support basic hotplug

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:55:47AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 11:09 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +       struct semaphore         sas_topology_mutex;
> 
> The semaphore to mutex conversion squad will have me shot if I put that
> in.  If it's just a mutex, then you need to use the new mutex types.  If
> it's actually a real counting semaphore (which it doesn't look to be)
> then call it a semaphore.

well, the scsi-misc tree doesn't have the mutex code yet, so it wouldn't
compile if I did it that way.  I'll send a followon patch to convert it
to use real mutexes ones scsi-misc has merged the latest linus tree.