Re: [ANNOUNCE] megaraid 2.00.6 patch for kernels without hostlock

Jens Axboe
2003-08-01T05:49:26Z

On Thu, Jul 31 2003, Mukker, Atul wrote:
>
> Well, that's definitely a good idea. Expect a new driver with this change.
> BTW, is there a kernel version beyond which all versions would support per
> host lock, and I mean a 2.4.x kernel :-)

Unfortunately no, however it is trivial to just add host->lock pointer
and make it point to io_request_lock. Ditto for q->queue_lock. That wont
change how the code operates at all. I will probably do that once 2.4.23
opens, it would make maintaining 2.6/2.4 drivers much easier (and ditto
for vendor kernels).

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Jens Axboe