From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1 Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:44:21 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4162B345.9000806@rtr.ca> References: <1096401785.13936.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1096467125.2028.11.camel@mulgrave> <20041005114951.GD22396@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1096984590.1765.2.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:2746 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269046AbUJEOqI (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:46:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1096984590.1765.2.camel@mulgrave> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Anton Blanchard , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List There seem to be other holes/races in this and related code. The QStor driver implements hot insertion/removal of drives. One thing it has to cope with at present is, after notifying the mid-layer that a drive has been removed, the mid-layer calls back with a synchronize-cache command for that drive.. Cheers -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")