Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:00:53 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 |
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James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 10:34, Mark Lord wrote: > >>If those locks are not needed, the scsi.c maintainer really should >>nuke'em. > > I think you can safely assume he has more important things to do.
I was actually working on the assumption that the lock might be there because it is/was necessary for something, like perhaps protecting access to the add_timer()/del_timer() calls associated with the scmd?
If not, no issue -- it can be removed from the driver.
Cheers -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy") - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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