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From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2, RESEND] Separate target visibility from reaped state
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:15:17 +0100
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On 01/06/2016 04:58 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 09:24 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> Instead of representing the states "visible in sysfs" and
>> "has been removed from the target list" by a single state
>> variable, use two variables to represent this information.
>>
>> This patch avoids that SCSI device removal can trigger a
>> soft lockup.
>
> It does?  When I asked you this the last time, you said the soft lockup
> was fixed by a prior patch:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/107248
>
> If you've actually caught a problem, can we have details because the
> distro people will want to know what gets fixed by this.

Hello James,

I will address your feedback and repost this patch.

Bart.