From: "N.C.Krishna Murthy" <krmurthy@cisco.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: SCSI -DEVELOPERS <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: two SCSI HBAs having same host no in Linux 2.4 kernel
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:18:27 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403172018.27581.krmurthy@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040317144619.GG25059@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Hi,
Our iSCSI driver does use new_eh_code.
Thanx
N.C.Krishna Murthy
On Wednesday 17 Mar 2004 8:16 pm, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:40:23PM +0530, N.C.Krishna Murthy wrote:
> > In case of drivers which do not support new_eh_code, 'detect' is called
> > without any locks. Is this SMP safe?
>
> ... why aren't you using the new_eh_code?
>
> I suspect the answer is that this is part of the transition; that old
> drivers were expected to have their own lock inside ->detect and new
> ones don't. But I wasn't around for that, so I'm not sure.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-17 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-17 14:10 two SCSI HBAs having same host no in Linux 2.4 kernel N.C.Krishna Murthy
2004-03-17 14:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-17 14:48 ` N.C.Krishna Murthy [this message]
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