From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove scsi_assign_lock Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:37:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20060113183736.GQ19769@parisc-linux.org> References: <20060113182543.GA4148@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:44524 "EHLO palinux.hppa") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422817AbWAMShi (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:37:38 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060113182543.GA4148@lst.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: jejb@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:25:43PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > We finally fixed all drivers to not require this hack, so let's get rid > of it before people reintroduce uses (vendor drivers seem to be very > eager to use it for no obvious reason) Although of course they'll now just assign to host_lock direectly. Presumably you intend to remove that in the near future, but didn't do that now because it would introduce too much code churn?