Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269070AbUJEOqM (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:46:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269068AbUJEOqM (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:46:12 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:2746 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269046AbUJEOqI (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:46:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4162B345.9000806@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:44:21 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley Cc: Anton Blanchard , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1 References: <1096401785.13936.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1096467125.2028.11.camel@mulgrave> <20041005114951.GD22396@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1096984590.1765.2.camel@mulgrave> In-Reply-To: <1096984590.1765.2.camel@mulgrave> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 618 Lines: 17 There seem to be other holes/races in this and related code. The QStor driver implements hot insertion/removal of drives. One thing it has to cope with at present is, after notifying the mid-layer that a drive has been removed, the mid-layer calls back with a synchronize-cache command for that drive.. Cheers -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy") - 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/