[8074] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI SMP safety.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Feb 9 22:43:23 2000
To: eric@andante.org (Eric Youngdale)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:06:10 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002092111100.26153-100000@gwyn.tux.org> from "Eric Youngdale" at Feb 09, 2000 09:31:20 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> 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.
Given past experience I think its not a bad idea to do it once and for
all. Im still fighting 2.2.x partial smp fixup bugs now.
> I don't even want to think about a massive change like this until
> all of the drivers are no longer using the old error handling code. There
> wasn't any particular reason I was thinking of doing it now except that it
> is a cleanup that eventually needs to happen.
Agreed. 2.5.x is the place to do the big switch
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