From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:13:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:13:05 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.132]:40576 "EHLO e34.bld.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:12:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:07:08 -0700 From: Jonathan Lahr To: Eric Youngdale Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: io_request_lock/queue_lock patch Message-ID: <20010830160708.G23680@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20010830232228.C2120-100000@gerard> <008801c1319d$57f16970$4d0310ac@fairfax.mkssoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <008801c1319d$57f16970$4d0310ac@fairfax.mkssoftware.com>; from eric@andante.org on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:47:19PM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 on an i486 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Is there an estimate on when the 2.5 i/o subsystem will be released? Jonathan Eric Youngdale [eric@andante.org] wrote: > I am afraid I would have to agree with Gérard. We were planning on > cleaning this mess up in the 2.5 kernel, and my inclination would be to > leave this alone until then. > > -Eric > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gérard Roudier" > To: "Jonathan Lahr" > Cc: ; > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:32 PM > Subject: Re: io_request_lock/queue_lock patch > > > > > > Here are my welcome comments. :) > > > > In my opinion, it would well be a miracle if your patch does not introduce > > new race conditions, at least for drivers that still use the old scsi done > > method. > > > > Gérard.