zhao, forrest wrote: >> * There's a race window between ATA revalidation and SCSI rescan. We >> can plug this hole by deferring commands till rescan is complete. But I >> doubt it would be worth the trouble. >> > This is really a problem. But the race condition is not so critical that > we need to bother to do some sync between libata and SCSI layer, right? I guess/hope so. The only thing which can make any difference seems to be the cache type setting. I don't think small race window would cause too much trouble there. -- tejun - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html