From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] cciss rmmod/scan-thread fixes Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:08:09 -0700 Message-ID: <20090715150809.8fd350b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090714220239.22282.44414.stgit@bob.kio> 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]:49123 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754007AbZGOWIS (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:08:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090714220239.22282.44414.stgit@bob.kio> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Patterson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mike.miller@hp.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:02:40 -0600 Andrew Patterson wrote: > The following series fixes several problems causing hangs while > rmmoding the cciss driver. In the process of fixing these hangs, I > also reworked the the logical drive scanning kernel thread to use one > thread per driver rather than one thread per controller. I also added > a sysfs attribute to kick off a controller scan. > > .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss | 7 + > drivers/block/cciss.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++-- > drivers/block/cciss.h | 7 + > 3 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) > > Andrew Patterson (3): > cciss: remove logical drive sysfs entries during driver cleanup. > cciss: use only one scan thread > cciss: kick off logical drive topology rescan through sysfs > So I assume that these are intended to fix the problem which cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread.patch didn't fix? Once we get this all sorted out, which kernel version(s) are we targetting and why? Thanks.