Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 05/13] scsi: remove a timer race from scsi_queue_insert() and cleanup timer

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 00:23:09 EST


Hello, Chritoph.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:13:53AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > /* Queue the command and wait for it to complete */
> > /* Abuse eh_timeout in the scsi_cmnd struct for our purposes */
> > init_timer(&cmd->eh_timeout);
> > + cmd->eh_timeout.function = NULL;
>
> I'd rather not see aic7xxx poke even deeper into this internal code.
> Can you please switch it to use a timer of it's own first?

Yes, I'll.

Thanks.

--
tejun

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