From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] fc_transport: fix sysfs deadlock on vport delete Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:42:12 -0500 Message-ID: <1179848532.3738.15.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> References: <1177692740.26526.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:39399 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758268AbXEVPmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 11:42:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1177692740.26526.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James.Smart@Emulex.Com Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:52 -0400, James Smart wrote: > When the vport attribute "delete" is used to delete the vport, sysfs > deadlocks waiting for the write to complete, which is waiting for the > sysfs teardown to complete. Moved this effort to a work_q element. > > Took the opportunity to make some other cosmetic changes: > - removed tabs in Doc file - replaced with expanded spaces > - minor copyright text and author text updates > - removed a bunch of trailing whitespace This one rejects against scsi-misc, could you reroll (I suspect because the prior vport patch had spacing errors which git makes me fix before I commit). James