Re: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: smartpqi: Replace semaphore sync_request_sem with mutex

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday, October 20, 2016 2:24:01 PM CEST Binoy Jayan wrote:
> Semaphores are going away in the future, so replace the semaphore
> sync_request_sem with the a mutex lock. timeout_msecs is not used
> for the lock sync_request_sem, so remove the timed locking too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@xxxxxxxxxx>

The patch looks correct to me, but I think if you remove the support
for handling timeouts, you should update the prototype of
pqi_submit_raid_request_synchronous to no longer pass the timeout
argument in the first place.

	Arnd