Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:04:52 -0500 | From | Jarod Wilson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] firewire: fw-sbp2: use device generation, not card generation |
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Stefan Richter wrote: > There was a small window where a login or reconnect job could use an > already updated card generation with an outdated node ID. We have to > use the fw_device.generation here, not the fw_card.generation, because > the generation must never be newer than the node ID when we emit a > transaction. This cannot be guaranteed with fw_card.generation. > > Furthermore, the target's and initiator's node IDs can be obtained from > fw_device and fw_card. Dereferencing their underlying topology objects > is not necessary. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Verified in concert with parts 2 and 3 as well as with 2, 3 and 4, to fix 'giving up on config rom' issues on multiple system and drive combinations that were previously affected.
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
-- Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com
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