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SubjectRe: [PATCH] helper for device list traversal
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:34:15PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > ChangeSet 1.1217.10.16, 2003/09/25 12:10:17-05:00, hch@lst.de
> >
> > [PATCH] helper for device list traversal
> >
> > This patch adds shost_for_each_device(). It's used to abstract out
> > scsi_host.my_devices traversal. The next step will be to replace
> > the current simple implementation with one that's fully locked down
> > an reference counted.
>
> Is this what we should use to fix the currently broken list traversal[*] in
> drivers/scsi/{a2091,gvp11,53c7xx}.c?
>
> Currently ut uses
>
> struct Scsi_Host *instance;
> for (instance = first_instance; instance &&
> instance->hostt == xxx_template; instance = instance->next)
>
> bust Scsi_Host.next was removed a while ago...

Urgg. This is totally hosed. The drivers should be fixed up to
pass the right host to request_irq and the only handle the right
one in the isr instead of walking a lits of all hosts of that template..

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