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From: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>,
	Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>,
	USB Storage List <usb-storage@one-eyed-alien.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI hotplug support
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:19:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021014161922.GB2940@beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021014154719.GE21010@nbkurt.casa-etp.nl>

Kurt Garloff [garloff@suse.de] wrote:
> There are some scary comments around the scsi add/remove-single-device
> code which imply that this stuff only works by accident. 
> I have used this functionality heavily for some time now and have never 
> had a problem. Same for people I talked to.
> But it would  probably make sense to review the code for possible
> problems.
> 
> But I'm all for integrating your patch. It does not introduce new
> problems. And if it exposes old ones, because the code is more
> heavily used, this can only be good.

The comments may be pointing at the issues of the locking around the
host_queue. Adds will probably be ok as we init the scsi_device before
adding it to the list (so one would see a ready scsi_device or NULL
?maybe?). The remove could be an issue if something  happened to be
traversing the list at the same time. 


-andmike
--
Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-14 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-14  5:40 [PATCH] SCSI hotplug support Erik Andersen
2002-10-14  7:06 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-10-14  7:12   ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 15:47     ` Kurt Garloff
2002-10-14 16:19       ` Mike Anderson [this message]
2002-10-14 20:41         ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 22:10           ` Mike Anderson
2002-10-14 20:46       ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 15:57 ` James Bottomley
2002-10-14 17:22   ` Mike Anderson
2002-10-14 17:30   ` Matthew Dharm
2002-10-14 17:39     ` James Bottomley
2002-10-14 19:11       ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-10-15  0:42       ` Kurt Garloff
2002-10-14 20:37   ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 21:07     ` James Bottomley
2002-10-14 21:54       ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 22:25         ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15  5:25           ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 15:33             ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 18:18               ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 18:22             ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 18:45               ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 19:13                 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 19:32                   ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 19:45                     ` James Bottomley
2002-10-15 19:50                     ` Scott Merritt
2002-10-15 19:55                     ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 22:07                       ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-16  2:40                         ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-18 11:28                           ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 21:43                 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-15 22:07                   ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-14 22:19       ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-15  0:22         ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15  7:53           ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-15 14:35             ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 15:19               ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-15 15:40                 ` James Bottomley
2002-10-15 17:47               ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-15 18:34                 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-15 18:22               ` Scott Merritt

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