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Re: scsi abort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Youngdale)
Sun May 21 19:39:59 2000
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From: "Eric Youngdale" <eric@andante.org>
To: "Oliver Neukum" <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>,
<linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Cc: <vii@penguinpoered.com>, <neukum@fachschaft.cup.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 19:39:17 -0400
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As things stand, it is really ugly. You essentially release the lock,
sleep, and then grab it again. This is on my list of cleanups for 2.5.
-Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Neukum" <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 5:09 PM
Subject: scsi abort
> Hi,
>
> looking through the scsi code to see, where abort() could be called, I
> found that callers of abort hold a spinlock(io_request_lock). We need to
> sleep in abort(). How can that be done ?
>
> TIA
> Oliver Neukum
>
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