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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] [SCSI] gdth: misc cleanups, preparation for	ISA/EISA hotplug API
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:34:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C101C8.2070306@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080224053117.GA13904@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:18:23AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> hmmmmm.  We'll see how it plays out...  on the remove side, the above is 
>> exact what happens in gdth_remove_one() without my patch, thus 
>> consolidating two cases of the same code into one.  There is a less-strong 
>> argument for doing the allocation that way, but it may turn out to be 
>> useful anyway once the ISA/EISA API conversion is complete.
> 
> EISA ->remove has a different prototype from PCI ->remove from ISA
> ->remove, so gdth_remove_one will be split up eventually.  Having the
> scsi_host_put duplicated in each shouldn't be too much of a problem :)

We'll see what the final result is...  you might turn out to be right. 
If people want to avoid merging this patch because of this issue, that's 
fine.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-24  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-24  4:44 [PATCH 1/1] [SCSI] gdth: misc cleanups, preparation for ISA/EISA hotplug API Jeff Garzik
2008-02-24  4:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-24  5:18   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-24  5:31     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-24  5:34       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-02-24  6:37       ` Matthew Wilcox

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