From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: softscsi patch
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:04:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207012004.g61K4wn03675@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> of "Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:20:43 BST." <20020630222043.B29045@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
willy@debian.org said:
> This work shows up a hole in the current softirq API -- there's no
> support for unregistering a softirq (close_softirq or similar). We
> should do this in scsi_exit -- make sure no softirqs are running while
> we unload. This probably isn't a problem in practice, but it'd be nice
> to fix it.
Actually, there's another problem: open_softirq isn't an exported symbol, so
the compile won't work when the entire scsi subsystem is a module (the usual
case for distributions these days).
I'm currently booting the patch (with this change) to see how it works out.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-01 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-30 21:20 softscsi patch Matthew Wilcox
2002-07-01 20:04 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2002-07-02 16:19 ` James Bottomley
2002-07-05 14:53 ` kuznet
2002-07-05 15:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-07-05 15:58 ` kuznet
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