From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch for 2.6.29? 2/2] scsi: mpt: suppress debugobjects warning Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:58:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20090421095843.afc78b80.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200903042012.n24KCIKH030001@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20090420145511.35b9c201.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <0D1E8821739E724A86F4D16902CE275C1410F4D5B1@inbmail01.lsi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33654 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751705AbZDURC2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:02:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <0D1E8821739E724A86F4D16902CE275C1410F4D5B1@inbmail01.lsi.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Desai, Kashyap" Cc: "James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "eparis@parisplace.org" , "Moore, Eric" , "tglx@linutronix.de" On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:08:45 +0530 "Desai, Kashyap" wrote: > It is a clean patch. There is not harm to ack it, but since I have already submitted code changes to upstream which have replaced "kernel timer" by "completion queue.", I will suggest to wait for next driver version. > > Init_timer() function will not be called from MPT fusion driver in next version No, that doesn't work. This means that people who use 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 will potentially see these warnings. This potentially includes the customers of any distributors who enable debugobjects. It creates additional work for users, for support staff and generates concern about the stability of the kernel.