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From: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
To: ext Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx_2: slave_alloc/destroy safety (2.6.27.5)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:57:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49648AA3.5070401@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4963861F.5090404@cybernetics.com>

Hello,

ext Tony Battersby wrote:
> From the description of this patch, I assume that it is a cleanup
> instead of a fix for an actual problem.  Correspondingly, I don't have a
> specific testcase that is improved by this patch.  I also have not
> analyzed the source to see what the patch is trying to do.  However, the
> current form of the patch passes testing as described above.

You can try to do the following test with and without the patch:

echo "scsi remove-single-device some_valid_address_with_a_target > 
/proc/scsi/scsi"

Then do e.g. "resetdev" or "cleardev" to that target through the drivers 
/proc interface.

A.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-29 20:27 [PATCH] sym53c8xx_2: slave_alloc/destroy safety (2.6.27.5) Tony Battersby
2008-12-29 20:55 ` Tony Battersby
2008-12-30 10:10   ` Aaro Koskinen
2008-12-30 19:16     ` James Bottomley
2009-01-06 16:26       ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-07 10:57         ` Aaro Koskinen [this message]
2009-01-07 14:52           ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-06 20:00       ` [PATCH] sym53c8xx_2: Keep transfer negotiations valid (2.6.27.5) Tony Battersby
2009-01-07 13:19         ` Aaro Koskinen
2009-01-15 15:13           ` Aaro Koskinen
2009-01-16 14:28             ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-21 18:27             ` Tony Battersby
2009-01-06 22:00       ` [PATCH] sym53c8xx_2: lun to_clear flag not re-initialized (2.6.27.5) Tony Battersby
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-29 20:20 [PATCH] sym53c8xx_2: slave_alloc/destroy safety (2.6.27.5) Tony Battersby
2008-11-19 14:58 Koskinen Aaro (NSN - FI/Helsinki)
2008-12-15 16:56 ` Mike Christie
2008-12-15 17:13   ` James Bottomley
2008-12-16 17:14     ` Aaro Koskinen

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