From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: softscsi patch Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:04:58 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200207012004.g61K4wn03675@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: (from root@localhost) by pogo.mtv1.steeleye.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA11493 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:05:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Wilcox of "Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:20:43 BST." <20020630222043.B29045@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Alexey Kuznetsov 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