Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3

From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri Oct 08 2004 - 08:31:24 EST


On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 16:15, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> - please use the kernel/kthread.c interface for your kernel thread

Actually, the driver has no need for a thread at all. Since you're
simply using it to fire hotplug events, use schedule_work instead.

I also noticed the following in a lightening review:

- Kill these constructs:
+ /* scsi_done expects to be called while locked */
+ if (!in_interrupt())
+ spin_lock_irqsave(uhba->lock, flags);

scsi_done() doesn't require a lock

- Your emulated commands assume they're non-sg and issued through the
kernel (i.e. you don't kmap and you don't do SG). This will blow up on
the first inquiry submitted via SG_IO for instance.

I'm sure there are others, but I don't have time to do a thorough review
at the moment.

James


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