On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 10:47 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Right ... I couldn't persuade anyone else to do it, so I'll probably end > > up coding it. It looks like the serial number zero check might be > > bogus. If so I'll remove it, then push the serial number acquisition > > down only into the locked queuecommand of only those drivers that > > actually use it (which were listed in the quoted email, and which might > > have a big impetus to remove it if the use is trivial). Then we can > > begin unwinding the locking. > > In dc395x, eata_pio, in2000, lpfc, megaraid_legacy, megaraid_mbox, > megaraid_sas, mesh, ncr53c8xx, qla1280, qla4xxx, wd33c93 and i2o_scsi > use it in printks only, and all this can be safely removed. > > Except for EH that only leaves dpt_i2o, eata, mpt2sas, u14-34f, mptscsi > as non-trivial users. If you sort out the EH side I'll volunteer to > kill the printks and add private serial numbers to the five drivers > mentioned above. You're on (you were cc'd on the patch) ... I was planning just to move the scsi_cmnd_get_serial() call into the locked queuecommand routine, but a more permanent solution might be better. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
