James: These patches are revised and simplified versions of work posted before. They are intended not primarily as fixes for reported bugs but rather as general clean-ups and improvements; as such I would expect them to be held in scsi-misc until the next merge window (or maybe the one after next, since the next one is getting close). Unlike the earlier patch series, these do not cause any semantic changes in behavior -- unless you consider elimination of various use-before-initialize, use-after-free, and memory-leak bugs to be semantic changes. :-) Briefly, the changes implemented by this series are: 1/7: Merge scsi_target_reap_usercontext with scsi_target_reap. 2/7: Make starget->reap_ref count the number of underlying devices. 3/7: Add an STARGET_NEW state for use before hostt->target_alloc has been called. 4/7: Fix miscellaneous bugs and infelicities in the target-handling code. 5/7: Add extra flags to scsi_device to keep track of which parts have been constructed. 6/7: Fix miscellaneous bugs in the device-handling code. 7/7: Minor improvements and clean-ups for that target- and device-handling code. Alan Stern -- 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
