From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:34:43 -0600 Message-ID: <1139934883.14115.4.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> References: <20060212190520.244fcaec.akpm@osdl.org> <20060213203800.GC22441@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:48513 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422633AbWBNQfO (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:35:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060213203800.GC22441@kroah.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , "Brown, Len" , "David S. Miller" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Yu, Luming" , Ben Castricum , sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk, Helge Hafting , "Carlo E. Prelz" , Gerrit Bruchh?user , Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net, Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , Patrizio Bassi , Bj?rn Nilsson , Andrey Borzenkov , "P. Christeas" , ghrt , jinhong hu , Andrew Vasquez , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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