Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 09:49 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote: >> 3.11.10.9 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> ------------------ >> >> From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> commit e63ed0d7a98014fdfc2cfeb3f6dada313dcabb59 upstream. >> >> This patch eliminates the reap_ref and replaces it with a proper kref. >> On last put of this kref, the target is removed from visibility in >> sysfs. The final call to scsi_target_reap() for the device is done from >> __scsi_remove_device() and only if the device was made visible. This >> ensures that the target disappears as soon as the last device is gone >> rather than waiting until final release of the device (which is often >> too long). >> >> Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Tested-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > [...] > > This and the next patch were commented "delay backport by 2 months for > field testing". > > Ben. Thanks Ben. I'll drop both patches from the 3.11 queue. Cheers, -- Luís
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