Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756039AbcCaG6o (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:58:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34765 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755889AbcCaG6m (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:58:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:58:39 +0200 From: jthumshirn To: James Bottomley Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , "Ewan D. Milne" , Hannes Reinecke , Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Update SCSI target removal path In-Reply-To: <1459356208.2509.9.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: <1459356208.2509.9.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Message-ID: <31317011e72e1beb610c6ba3a28ee92c@suse.de> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 745 Lines: 17 On 2016-03-30 18:43, James Bottomley wrote: > 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. You're right. I'll resend the series in reverse order.