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From: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>
To: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: Backport of: [SCSI] sg: fix races during device removal--OK?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:49:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248126569.8762.143.camel@psmith-ubeta.netezza.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A607CD5.9050206@cybernetics.com>

On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 09:29 -0400, Tony Battersby wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> > Hi all.  We are using the current Linux 2.6.27.26 stable kernel on an
> > embedded system.  We are seeing some SCSI issues, and the fix (log entry
> > below) that went into 2.6.28.10 seems relevant.  We backported it to our
> > version of the kernel, as included below.
> >
> > Most things applied without any issue but there were a few areas that
> > had to be changed for 2.6.27; see the marked diffs for sg_release() and
> > sg_common_write().
> >
> > I wonder if anyone has any comments on this: problems with the backport
> > or other issues we might run into.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > 
> I am also using 2.6.27.26 in an embedded system.  Below is the patch
> that I have been using.

Ah!  That works well for us and solves the issues we were seeing.

Thanks Tony!


      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-16 22:28 Backport of: [SCSI] sg: fix races during device removal--OK? Paul Smith
2009-07-17 13:29 ` Tony Battersby
2009-07-20 21:49   ` Paul Smith [this message]

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