From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Mark Lord <lsml@rtr.ca>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:00:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416C0DC5.2080206@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097251299.1928.56.camel@mulgrave>
James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 10:34, Mark Lord wrote:
>
>>If those locks are not needed, the scsi.c maintainer really should
>>nuke'em.
>
> I think you can safely assume he has more important things to do.
I was actually working on the assumption that the lock might be
there because it is/was necessary for something, like perhaps protecting
access to the add_timer()/del_timer() calls associated with the scmd?
If not, no issue -- it can be removed from the driver.
Cheers
--
Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-12 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-04 19:11 [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 Mark Lord
2004-10-07 13:42 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 14:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-07 15:35 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 15:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 20:17 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 20:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 20:34 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 20:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 20:54 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 21:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-07 22:03 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-20 15:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-07 23:39 ` PATCH] " Mark Lord
2004-10-13 18:56 ` [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc4 Mark Lord
2004-10-08 13:19 ` [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 James Bottomley
2004-10-08 15:15 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-08 15:27 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-08 15:34 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-08 15:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-08 16:01 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-12 17:00 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2004-10-12 17:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:09 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-12 17:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-08 15:38 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-08 15:47 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-08 15:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 16:59 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 17:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:14 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 17:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:17 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-12 17:22 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 17:30 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-12 17:33 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 17:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:51 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 18:12 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-12 18:36 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 18:25 ` driver hacking tips (was Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3) Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 19:18 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 19:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:34 ` [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 20:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-07 20:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 21:16 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 21:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 21:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-13 20:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-13 22:16 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-13 22:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-13 23:24 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-13 23:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-14 16:30 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-14 16:37 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-14 16:52 ` [PATCH] Export ata_scsi_simulate() for use by non-libata drivers Mark Lord
2004-10-14 17:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-14 18:44 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-15 5:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-15 13:25 ` John W. Linville
2004-10-15 14:59 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-15 15:38 ` Jeff Garzik
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