From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] question on flushing buffers and spinning down disk Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:27:10 -0700 Message-ID: <20070928042710.GA24458@kroah.com> References: <200709251711.01216.oliver@neukum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:37238 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754165AbXI1EXm (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:23:42 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200709251711.01216.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Oliver Neukum Cc: Alan Stern , James Bottomley , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:11:00PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > PS: Whoever designed klists is suffering from a case of overengineeringosis. No objection from me there. If you can think of a way to do list traversal without taking locks, please, feel free to redo the whole klist stuff. As it was, Pat emerged out of nowhere, threw the code at us, it fixed some locking issues I was trying to solve at the time, so I added it. Then he ran away to a different continent :( Oh well... greg k-h