Re: sleeping in scsi EH

Christoph Hellwig
2005-05-27T08:42:22Z

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:37:29AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >You can sleep in them. You must however release the host lock and enable
> >irqs first and reverse that before returning. The error handlers don't
> >need the host lock, but we're stuck with the unfortunate calling convention
> >for now.
>
> Why are we stuck with this calling convention, when everyone who cares
> circumvents it?

Because no one found the time to do a full transition yet. If you want to
update all scsi drivers feel free. One patch per method please.