Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] scsi: Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state

[James Bottomley]

On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 14:53 +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state to avoid
> running
> into the BUG_ON() in scsi_target_reap().
> 
> This intermediate state is only valid in the path from
> scsi_remove_target() to
> scsi_target_destroy() indicating this target is going to be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 40998193560dab6c3ce8d25f4fa58a23e252ef38

The code and ordering is fine with me, so you can add

Reviewed-by: James Bottomley <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

However, I'd really appreciate it if the description of what was going
on was clearer for a non-SUSE distro maintainer.  What we're doing is
applying a more comprehensive fix for a previously hack fixed problem
and then reverting the hack.  I think message 1 should say "this
refixes the problem introduced by commit X in a more comprehensive way"

and message 2 "Now that we've done a more comprehensive fix with the
intermediate target state in patch Y, we can remove the previous hack"

James