From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] SCSI: Make cmd_serial_number an atomic
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 07:00:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110403110057.GC3872@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110402210240.GD7286@parisc-linux.org>
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 03:02:40PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Fair enough, but you're making the perfect the enemy of the good.
> How about putting this patch in for now (since it harms nothing), and
> then it'll all go away when you delete cmd_serial_number?
If you change it anyway for mpt2sas just keep the atomic counter in
it's local structures. Or even better verify with LSI if the
serial_number check can't simply be removed entirely, which I think it
could.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-03 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-01 20:20 [PATCH 1/3] SCSI: Make cmd_serial_number an atomic Matthew Wilcox
2011-04-02 13:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-02 13:51 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-02 18:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-04-02 21:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-04-03 11:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-04-03 12:14 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-03 13:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-04-03 13:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-03 19:54 ` James Bottomley
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