From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove sync waiting code from libata Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:14:21 +0900 Message-ID: <46E259DD.5090609@gmail.com> References: <20070907024632.GH27404@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.191]:38149 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754833AbXIHRIR (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 13:08:17 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so690083rvb for ; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:08:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070907024632.GH27404@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Matthew Wilcox wrote: > By using the scsi async probing code, we can remove the 'sync' argument > from ata_scsi_scan_host(): Hmmm... How so? @sync is there to keep device numbering stable even when SCSI scan fails due to allocation failure. I don't see how async probing changes that. -- tejun