Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx_2: slave_alloc/destroy safety (2.6.27.5)

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On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:56 -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> Koskinen Aaro (NSN - FI/Helsinki) wrote:
> > Make the sym53c8xx_2 driver slave_alloc/destroy less unsafe. References
> > to the destroyed LCB are cleared from the target structure (instead of
> > leaving a dangling pointer), and when the last LCB for the target is
> > destroyed the reference to the upper layer target data is cleared. The
> > host lock is used to prevent a race with the interrupt handler. Also
> > user commands are prevented for targets with all LCBs destroyed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: aaro.koskinen@xxxxxxx
> 
> 
> Same signed off line issue. Should be Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen 
> <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxxx>.

Right, thanks!

> There were also some whitespace issues, but merging it with git-am 
> --whitespace=fix fixed them up.

You can pick these up by running the patch through scripts/checkpatch.pl

Matthew, Are you still maintaining this driver, or is it going
unmaintained and it's up to me to vet these patches?

James


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