Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:13:00 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH git latest] drivers/scsi: fixing wrong comment before new_buffer_tape() |
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:49:48 -0500 Lin Tan <tammy000@gmail.com> wrote:
> (I would wish to be personally CC'ed the answers/comments posted to the list in response to my posting.) > > --- > > Removing the wrong comment. > The lock is needed before calling new_tape_buffer(), at least in some cases. > So the comment above new_tape_buffer() is inconsistent with the code and > may mislead developers. > > I simply removed the wrong comment, as I am not sure if the lock is required > in all situations. If so, we should add "Caller must hold os_scsi_tapes_lock". > > Signed-off-by: Lin Tan <tammy000@gmail.com>
Looks true to me for the current versions of the code. In fact it is only ever called from the initialisation function that I can see so chunks of the code could simply go away as well as bits of the comment. Ditto the one in drivers/scsi/st.c
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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