Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754114AbcC3Qnf (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:43:35 -0400 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:47880 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751055AbcC3Qnd (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:43:33 -0400 Message-ID: <1459356208.2509.9.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Update SCSI target removal path From: James Bottomley To: Johannes Thumshirn , "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: "Ewan D. Milne" , Hannes Reinecke , Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:43:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 19 On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 09:09 +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > [resend with linux-scsi@ in Cc, my apologies] > > This is a follow up to "scsi: Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state > to scsi_target_state". > > If anyone has an idea how to create a regression test suite for the > target removal path I'd be all ears, given the fact that this is the > 3rd or 4th patch targeting it. Actually, could you reverse the order of these patches, please. It's not safe to revert the soft lockup fix until after the intermediate state is introduced. I'd rather we didn't go through a point in the tree where the bug exists again. Thanks, James