Re: smp dead lock of io_request_lock/queue_lock patch

From: James Bottomley (James.Bottomley_at_steeleye.com)
Date: 01/12/04

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    To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Date:	12 Jan 2004 11:04:17 -0500

    On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 10:52, Doug Ledford wrote:
    > Well, the scsi-dledford-2.4 tree is intended to be someplace I can put
    > all the stuff I'm having to carry forward in our kernels, so that's
    > distinctly different than a driver update only tree. I could do that
    > separately and I have no problem doing that.

    I'll take that as a "yes" then ;-)

    Thanks for doing this, beacuse I really wasn't looking forward to trying
    to sort it all out.

    > As for the other stuff,
    > I'm not pushing to necessarily get any of my changes into mainline. I
    > would be happy if they make it there sometime as that would relieve load
    > off of me, but at the same time I *am* making some changes to the core
    > code (sorry Jens, but there are some ways in which the 2.4 core scsi
    > code is just too broken to believe and leaving it broken just means
    > dealing with everyone that points it out in bugzilla entries) and I know
    > people are loath to change core code in mainline, so I kinda figured a
    > lot of that stuff would either A) stay separate or B) only after myself
    > and other interested parties agree on a patch and that patch is widely
    > tested and known good then maybe it might get moved over, up to Marcelo.

    I trust your judgement about this, so it sounds like we have the
    beginnings of a good working model for 2.4

    James

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