Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274868AbTGaVLN (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:11:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274867AbTGaVLN (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:11:13 -0400 Received: from mail0.lsil.com ([147.145.40.20]:47797 "EHLO mail0.lsil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S273031AbTGaVLH (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:11:07 -0400 Message-Id: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E570185F3CF@EXA-ATLANTA.se.lsil.com> From: "Mukker, Atul" To: "'Jens Axboe'" , "Bagalkote, Sreenivas" Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'" , "'linux-megaraid-devel@dell.com'" Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] megaraid 2.00.6 patch for kernels without hostlock Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:10:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1616 Lines: 45 Well, that's definitely a good idea. Expect a new driver with this change. BTW, is there a kernel version beyond which all versions would support per host lock, and I mean a 2.4.x kernel :-) Thanks -Atul Mukker > -----Original Message----- > From: Jens Axboe [mailto:axboe@suse.de] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:06 AM > To: Bagalkote, Sreenivas > Cc: 'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'; 'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'; > 'linux-megaraid-devel@dell.com' > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] megaraid 2.00.6 patch for kernels without > hostlock > > > On Wed, Jul 30 2003, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote: > > Please apply this patch to megaraid 2.00.6 driver for > kernels that don't > > support per host lock. This can be found at : > > > > ftp://ftp.lsil.com/pub/linux-megaraid/drivers/version-2.00.6/ > > It's easily possible to keep the impact of maintaining a driver across > such kernels a lot smaller, by simply using the same lock in the > spin_lock calls and just assign that lock to adapter->lock or > io_request_lock depending on the kernel. > > -- > Jens Axboe > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-megaraid-devel mailing list > Linux-megaraid-devel@dell.com > http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-megaraid-devel > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq or search > the list archives at http://lists.us.dell.com/htdig/ > - 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/