Re: [PATCH 0/3] cciss rmmod/scan-thread fixes

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:02:40 -0600
Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> wrote:

> The following series fixes several problems causing hangs while
> rmmoding the cciss driver. In the process of fixing these hangs, I
> also reworked the the logical drive scanning kernel thread to use one
> thread per driver rather than one thread per controller. I also added
> a sysfs attribute to kick off a controller scan.
> 
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss        |    7 +
>  drivers/block/cciss.c                              |  198 ++++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/block/cciss.h                              |    7 +
>  3 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
> Andrew Patterson (3):
>       cciss: remove logical drive sysfs entries during driver cleanup.
>       cciss: use only one scan thread
>       cciss: kick off logical drive topology rescan through sysfs
> 

So I assume that these are intended to fix the problem which
cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread.patch didn't fix?

Once we get this all sorted out, which kernel version(s) are we
targetting and why?

Thanks.