Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc4-mm1 3/4] megaraid_sas: updating the driver

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:45:05PM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> Could I get an historical (2.4 & Distribution) perspective on this. At
> which point, or what code/include/manifest/version delineating it, would
> you say the driver is no longer, if ever, required to place a lock
> (host_lock or io_request_lock) around the scsi_done call?
> 
> I expect (or hope) the answer to be: always needs io_request_lock in
> 2.4, never needed the host_lock in 2.5+.

You don't need any lock in 2.4 either.

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