From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Yu,
Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com>, Ben Castricum <lk@bencastricum.nl>,
sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk, Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>,
"Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@fluido.as>,
Gerrit Bruchh?user <gbruchhaeuser@gmx.de>,
Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
Patrizio Bassi <patrizio.bassi@gmail.com>,
Bj?rn Nilsson <bni.swe@gmail.com>,
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
"P. Christeas" <p_christ@hol.gr>, ghrt <ghrt@dial.kappa.ro>,
jinhong hu <jinhong.hu@gmail.com>,
Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:34:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139934883.14115.4.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060213203800.GC22441@kroah.com>
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 12:38 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > - Nasty warnings from scsi about kobject-layer things being called
> from
> > irq context. James has a push-it-to-process-context patch which
> sadly
> > assumes kmalloc() is immortal, but no other fix seems to have
> offered
> > itself.
>
> This has been the case for a long time. I don't really think there is
> a
> rush to get this fixed, but I really like James's proposed patch.
> It's
> up to him if he feels it is ready for 2.6.16 or not.
Well, I can't solve the problem that it requires memory allocation from
IRQ context to operate. Based on that, it's an unsafe interface. I'm
going to put it inside SCSI for 2.6.16, since it's better than what we
have now, but I don't think we can export it globally.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-14 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602121709240.3691@g5.osdl.org>
2006-02-13 3:05 ` Linux 2.6.16-rc3 Andrew Morton
2006-02-13 3:22 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-13 3:28 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-02-13 3:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-13 4:40 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-13 5:20 ` S3 sleep regression bisected (was Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3) Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-02-13 7:04 ` Linux 2.6.16-rc3 Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-13 8:11 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-13 9:22 ` Patrizio Bassi
2006-02-13 12:02 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-13 12:37 ` Patrizio Bassi
2006-02-13 13:13 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-13 13:31 ` Patrizio Bassi
2006-02-13 14:15 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-13 14:34 ` Patrizio Bassi
2006-02-13 14:39 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-13 13:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-02-13 13:51 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-13 19:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-02-13 20:38 ` Greg KH
2006-02-14 16:34 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2006-02-16 1:56 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-16 17:12 ` Russell King
2006-02-16 17:34 ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-16 17:57 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-16 18:09 ` Russell King
2006-02-16 18:14 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-16 18:18 ` Russell King
2006-02-16 19:09 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-16 20:01 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-18 0:42 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-18 1:00 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 2:12 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 5:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-18 10:03 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Sergey Vlasov
2006-02-19 14:30 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-23 18:43 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-18 20:16 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-19 13:51 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-18 21:06 ` Helge Hafting
2006-02-13 6:59 Brown, Len
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-13 7:07 Brown, Len
2006-02-13 7:13 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-13 7:43 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-02-13 8:02 Brown, Len
2006-02-13 8:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-13 8:42 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-02-13 8:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-14 3:08 ` Michal Jaegermann
2006-02-14 3:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-14 4:48 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-14 5:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-14 6:22 ` Michal Jaegermann
2006-02-16 23:04 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-14 3:30 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-14 6:55 ` Michal Jaegermann
2006-02-14 5:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-14 21:17 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-02-14 6:23 Brown, Len
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