Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760297Ab3ICSid (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:38:33 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:39756 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753889Ab3ICSic (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:38:32 -0400 Message-ID: <52262CA4.2030902@kernel.dk> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:38:28 -0600 From: Jens Axboe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Milburn CC: Asai Thambi S P , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Sam Bradshaw Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtip32xx: Add SRSI support References: <518BE87F.3080201@micron.com> <52262C8F.30107@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <52262C8F.30107@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1428 Lines: 46 On 09/03/2013 12:38 PM, David Milburn wrote: > Asai Thambi S P wrote: >> This patch add support for SRSI(Surprise Removal Surprise Insertion). >> >> Approach: >> --------- >> Surprise Removal: >> ----------------- >> On surprise removal of the device, gendisk, request queue, device >> index, sysfs >> entries, etc are retained as long as device is in use - mounted >> filesystem, >> device opened by an application, etc. The service thread breaks out of >> the main >> while loop, waits for pci remove to exit, and then waits for device to >> become >> free. When there no holders of the device, service thread cleans up >> the block >> and device related stuff and returns. >> >> Surprise Insertion: >> ------------------- >> No change, this scenario follows the normal pci probe() function flow. >> >> Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P >> --- >> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c | 453 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- >> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.h | 18 +- >> 2 files changed, 289 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-) >> > > Hi Jens, > > Will you be considering this patch for 3.12? Yep, it will go in this merge window. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/