Re: [patch 25/45] SCSI: sg: fix races during device removal

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 22:01:36 EST


On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:15:33 -0700
Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Linus Torvalds (torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, James Bottomley wrote:
> > >
> > > I think we could wait a bit to see if any issues turn up in 2.6.30
> > > testing. I think it should go in eventually, though.
> >
> > Sure, that sounds sane. But right now it has very little extra testing, so
> > wait with putting it into -stable at _least_ until after -rc1 release or
> > something?
>
> I'll drop it (meaning the three). James can you resend after they've
> withstood the test of time?

I really want to push the patches as soon as possible. The bug that
the 27/45 patch fixes has been for two months and I saw bug reports
about it again and again:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123841463709919&w=2
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