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

[Binoy Jayan]

Hi Arnd

On 20 October 2016 at 14:36, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

But we still need "timeout_msecs" in a call to
pqi_submit_raid_request_synchronous_with_io_request()

drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c +3484

-Binoy