On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 17:30 +0530, Reddy, Sreekanth wrote: > James, > > This patch seem to be fine. Please consider this patch.
Where's the new version? The one that has all of this fixed: > Off list, Sreekanth from LSI tested and noticed a few issues with this > patch: > > - mpt2sas_base_stop_watchdog is called twice: The call from > mpt2sas_base_detach is safe, but now unnecessary (as a call was > added earlier up in the PCI driver callbacks to ensure that the > watchdog was out of the way.) This second invocation can be > removed. > > - If the watchdog detects a bad IOC, the watchdog remains running: > The watchdog workqueue isn't cleaned up until > mpt2sas_base_stop_watchdog is called, so in the case that the > watchdog removes the device from SCSI topo, the workqueue will > remain unused until PCI .remove/.shutdown cleans it up. Perhaps a > single watchdog that iterates over all adapters would be simpler? > > Finally, if SCSI topo detachment is all that is interesting here, > would > it make more sense to move the watchdog into the MPT "scsi" code? I > haven't looked at the code yet, but this might make an MPT fusion > patch > easier (due to dependencies between its "scsi" and "base" modules). ? James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
