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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: slave_destroy called in scsi_scan.c:scsi_probe_and_add_lun()
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:33:41 +0000
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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:24:59PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
> Well, that or I need Jens to clean up the block layer allocation code so 
> that it only allocates one request at block queue init time and from then 
> on does lazy request allocations once the device needs them, similar to 
> what I did with the scsi command blocks.

What do you think about forward-porting akpm's blk_grow_request_list()
changes in 2.4?  I could do that easily and it should help to get this 
sorted out properly.