Hey Bart,
The solution I prefer is to modify the SCSI scanning code such that the scan_mutex is only held while performing the actual LUN scanning and while ensuring that no SCSI device has been created yet for a certain LUN number but not while the Linux device and its sysfs attributes are created. Since that approach would require extensive changes in the SCSI scanning code, another approach has been chosen, namely to make self-removal asynchronous. This patch avoids that self-removal triggers the following deadlock:
Is this a real deadlock? or just a lockdep complaint? Wouldn't making scsi_remove_device() taking single depth mutex_lock_nested suffice here? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
