Re: sleeping in scsi EH

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On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:37:29AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >You can sleep in them.  You must however release the host lock and enable
> >irqs first and reverse that before returning.  The error handlers don't
> >need the host lock, but we're stuck with the unfortunate calling convention
> >for now.
> 
> Why are we stuck with this calling convention, when everyone who cares 
> circumvents it?

Because no one found the time to do a full transition yet.  If you want to
update all scsi drivers feel free.  One patch per method please.

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