On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:02:40 -0600 Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@xxxxxx> wrote: > The following series fixes several problems causing hangs while > rmmoding the cciss driver. In the process of fixing these hangs, I > also reworked the the logical drive scanning kernel thread to use one > thread per driver rather than one thread per controller. I also added > a sysfs attribute to kick off a controller scan. > > .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss | 7 + > drivers/block/cciss.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++-- > drivers/block/cciss.h | 7 + > 3 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) > > Andrew Patterson (3): > cciss: remove logical drive sysfs entries during driver cleanup. > cciss: use only one scan thread > cciss: kick off logical drive topology rescan through sysfs > So I assume that these are intended to fix the problem which cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread.patch didn't fix? Once we get this all sorted out, which kernel version(s) are we targetting and why? Thanks. -- 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
