Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1

[Jeff Garzik]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:57:40AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> >
> >It would add quite a bit of complexity to the reference counted
> >aynchronous model to try and force synchronicity between queuecommand
> >and scsi_remove_host in the mid-layer.  Therefore it's much easier to
> >let the LLD decide what to do with the command.
> 
> Presumably the same is also true for scsi_remove_device() ?

What I do in my local hotplug code is assume that the SCSI layer will be
stupid and send commands after I call scsi_remove_device(), for an
indeterminant but short period of time.

	Jeff



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