Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269999AbUJEPzx (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:55:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269996AbUJEPzx (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:55:53 -0400 Received: from stat16.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.48]:64426 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269970AbUJEPyc (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:54:32 -0400 Subject: Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1 From: James Bottomley To: Oliver Neukum Cc: Mark Lord , Anton Blanchard , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200410051749.22245.oliver@neukum.org> References: <1096401785.13936.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4162B345.9000806@rtr.ca> <1096988167.2064.7.camel@mulgrave> <200410051749.22245.oliver@neukum.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-9) Date: 05 Oct 2004 10:54:17 -0500 Message-Id: <1096991666.2064.25.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:49, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Then let the driver tell the upper layers whether the device is still > connected or not. Do we have to go over this again? It would add quite a bit of complexity to the reference counted aynchronous model to try and force synchronicity between queuecommand and scsi_remove_host in the mid-layer. Therefore it's much easier to let the LLD decide what to do with the command. James - 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/