Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:00:06 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, davem@davemloft.net,
       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] scsi/qlogicpti.c section fixes
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> I'm just reflecting that all of the
> problems would go away and we'd save thousands of person hours on the
> infrastructure and bug fixing if we simply #defined most of the
> sectional annotations to be nops.

So far I have only seen three persons being really active in fixing the
section mismatch bugs. And thats Randy, Adrian and myself.
Granted a few other have done some sporadic efforts in their
area of interest but nothing covering the tree as a whole.
And most isssues are easy fixable - I would estimate less than
half an hour in average for the fixes Adrian posted today.
There are some tricky corners that are dfficult to deal with
but I have not seen these occur in drivers.
It is mostly when we mix assembler and C plus
some of the core functionality.
The hotplug cpu stuff for example look scary and here
I may try to road you propose but for the hotplug stuff
I think it is worth it.

	Sam
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