[8073] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI SMP safety.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Jacob)
Wed Feb 9 22:34:47 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:17:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com
To: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Eric Youngdale wrote:
>
> Linus doesn't like the smp_safe flag at all. He wants us to
> switch all of the drivers in one fell swoop if we are going to do it.
> Ugh is all I can say.
No- this is the right thing to do. Really. We suffered terribly at Sun when we
had the 'unsafe_driver' mutex. It probably added a year to the project to get
SVr4 out the door.
> Naturally any driver maintainers that wish to switch over sooner
> are more than welcome to :-).
I'm pretty much switched over already. I just wish I knew which flavor to
switch over to. Could you have a URL somewhere that the code points to that
contains a list of variant 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 streams and what the midlayer
wants/expects for each? That'd be way cool.....
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