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SubjectRe: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3
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")
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