From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: smp dead lock of io_request_lock/queue_lock patch Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:48:29 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040112194829.A7078@infradead.org> References: <20040112151230.GB5844@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040112151230.GB5844@devserv.devel.redhat.com>; from arjanv@redhat.com on Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:12:30PM +0100 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Martin Peschke3 , Jens Axboe , Doug Ledford , Peter Yao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi mailing list , ihno@suse.de List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:12:30PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > as the patch discussed in this thread, i.e. pure (partially > > vintage) bugfixes. > > Both SuSE and Red Hat submit bugfixes they put in the respective trees to > marcelo already. There will not be many "pure bugfixes" that you can find in > vendor trees but not in marcelo's tree. I haven't seen SCSI patches sumission for 2.4 from the vendors on linux-scsi for ages. In fact I asked Jens & Doug two times whether they could sort out the distro patches for the 2.4 stack and post them, but it seems they're busy enough with real work so this never happened.