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Author SHA1 Message Date
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e94b176609 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL
SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
Al Viro
2fdb611d31 [PATCH] ... and then some more work_struct-induced breakage (ibmvscsi)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 14:51:14 -08:00
Al Viro
4927b3f74c [PATCH] More work_struct induced breakage (s390)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 14:51:14 -08:00
David Howells
06328b4f79 Actually update the fixed up compile failures.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-06 15:02:26 +00:00
David Howells
4796b71fbb Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/pcmcia/ds.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compile failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-06 15:01:18 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
ec0bf39a47 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (73 commits)
  [SCSI] aic79xx: Add ASC-29320LPE ids to driver
  [SCSI] stex: version update
  [SCSI] stex: change wait loop code
  [SCSI] stex: add new device type support
  [SCSI] stex: update device id info
  [SCSI] stex: adjust default queue length
  [SCSI] stex: add value check in hard reset routine
  [SCSI] stex: fix controller_info command handling
  [SCSI] stex: fix biosparam calculation
  [SCSI] megaraid: fix MMIO casts
  [SCSI] tgt: fix undefined flush_dcache_page() problem
  [SCSI] libsas: better error handling in sas_expander.c
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Change version number to 8.1.11
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Misc Fixes
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Add soft_wwnn sysfs attribute, rename soft_wwn_enable
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Removed decoding of PCI Subsystem Id
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Add MSI (Message Signalled Interrupts) support
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Adjust LOG_FCP logging
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Fix Memory leaks
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Fix lpfc_multi_ring_support
  ...
2006-12-05 16:09:46 -08:00
Salyzyn, Mark
d32adcb85c [SCSI] aic79xx: Add ASC-29320LPE ids to driver
Simple patch to add the new PCIe version of the 29320 card.

Signed-off: Mark Salyzyn <Mark_Salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 14:17:17 -06:00
Ed Lin
febb631c11 [SCSI] stex: version update
Update version to 3.1.0.1

Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 11:33:58 -06:00
Ed Lin
76fbf96f82 [SCSI] stex: change wait loop code
The original wait loop may be much longer than intended time.
Use more accurate timer_after for it. Also adjust wait value to
avoid unnecessary long waiting.

Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 11:33:38 -06:00
Ed Lin
94e9108b5a [SCSI] stex: add new device type support
Add support for st_vsc1 type device (st_vsc is ok because it does not
require extra buffer).

Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 11:33:24 -06:00
Ed Lin
ee926b27a0 [SCSI] stex: update device id info
- add comments for various devices
- remove unused device ids(0xf350, 0x4301, 0x8301, 0x8302)
- add new device id(0xe350)
- fix vendor id of st_vsc
- modify Kconfig help info

Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 11:33:06 -06:00
Ed Lin
529e7a62c8 [SCSI] stex: adjust default queue length
Firmware of new version may adjust default queue length. It is
backward compatible.

Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 11:32:46 -06:00
Ed Lin
47c4f997c7 [SCSI] stex: add value check in hard reset routine
During hard reset, an all-1 value from PCI_COMMAND should be invalid.

Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 11:32:30 -06:00
Ed Lin
4eea9dc45f [SCSI] stex: fix controller_info command handling
This command needs information from both firmware and driver. First copy
information from firmware to buffer, then fill in driver information.

Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 11:31:43 -06:00
Ed Lin
b4b8bed123 [SCSI] stex: fix biosparam calculation
Fix biosparam calculation.

Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 11:31:26 -06:00
David Howells
9db7372445 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
	include/linux/libata.h

Futher merge of Linus's head and compilation fixups.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 17:01:28 +00:00
Jeff Garzik
00769ec400 [SCSI] megaraid: fix MMIO casts
megaraid's MMIO RD*/WR* macros directly call readl() and writel() with
an 'unsigned long' argument.  This throws a warning, but is otherwise OK
because the 'unsigned long' is really the result of ioremap().  This
setup is also OK because the variable can hold an ioremap cookie /or/ a
PCI I/O port (PIO).

However, to fix the warning thrown when readl() and writel() are passed
an unsigned long cookie, I introduce 'void __iomem *mmio_base', holding
the same value as 'base'.  This will silence the warnings, and also
cause an oops whenever these MMIO-only functions are ever accidentally
passed an I/O address.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 10:25:35 -06:00
akpm@osdl.org
e42ebefee1 [SCSI] tgt: fix undefined flush_dcache_page() problem
drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_if.c: In function 'tgt_uspace_send_event':
drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_if.c:88: warning: implicit declaration of function 'flush_dcache_page'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-05 09:59:47 -06:00
David Howells
4c1ac1b491 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
	drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
	drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
	drivers/usb/core/hub.h
	drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
	net/core/netpoll.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 14:37:56 +00:00
Dominik Brodowski
af2b3b503a [PATCH] pcmcia: conf.ConfigBase and conf.Present consolidation
struct pcmcia_device *p_dev->conf.ConfigBase and .Present are set in almost
all PCMICA driver right at the beginning, using the same calls but slightly
different implementations. Unfiy this in the PCMCIA core.

Includes a small bugfix ("drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c: remove unused
label") from and Signed-off-by Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-12-04 20:12:02 -05:00
Dominik Brodowski
efd50585e2 [PATCH] pcmcia: remove manf_id and card_id indirection
As we read out the manufactor and card_id from the PCMCIA device in the
PCMCIA core, and device drivers can access those reliably in struct
pcmcia_device's fields manf_id and card_id, remove additional (and partly
broken) manf_id and card_id detection logic from PCMCIA device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-12-04 20:09:20 -05:00
Al Viro
f6a570333e [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-04 02:00:22 -05:00
James Bottomley
024879ead9 [SCSI] libsas: better error handling in sas_expander.c
With async scanning, we're now tripping the BUG_ON in
sas_ex_discover_end_dev(), so make the error handling here correct.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 12:29:46 -06:00
James Smart
ba8d55048a [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Change version number to 8.1.11
Change version number to 8.1.11

Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:35:20 -06:00
James Smart
f560351106 [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Misc Fixes
Misc Fixes:
 - Prevent references to NULL node list element in reset routines.
 - Add missing IOCB types to switch tables
 - Reset the card on Port Error 5
 - Fix infinite loop in LUN reset

Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:35:04 -06:00
James Smart
a12e07bc62 [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Add soft_wwnn sysfs attribute, rename soft_wwn_enable
The driver now allows both wwpn and wwnn to be set.

Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:34:43 -06:00
James Smart
18a3b59666 [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Removed decoding of PCI Subsystem Id
To avoid continually updating the driver for new subsystem ids
(as adapter modules are proliferating), remove this 2nd level decode.
Genericize the reported Adapter names to be consistent across
Emulex product line.

Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:33:27 -06:00
James Smart
4ff43246e4 [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Add MSI (Message Signalled Interrupts) support
Add MSI (Message Signalled Interrupts) support
  Actual use must be enabled via the new module parameter "lpfc_use_msi"
  Defaults to no use

Many thanks to Frederic Temporelli who implemented the initial patch.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Temporelli <frederic.temporelli@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:31:04 -06:00
James Smart
c7743956f8 [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Adjust LOG_FCP logging
Adjust LOG_FCP logging to be more meaningful.

Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:29:57 -06:00
James Smart
146911500f [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Fix Memory leaks
Fix Memory leaks associated with mbox cmds READ_LA, READ_SPARAM, REG_LOGIN

Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:29:36 -06:00
James Smart
a4bc3379fb [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Fix lpfc_multi_ring_support
It was not accounted for in the fast/slow rings.
Genericize the implementation and control it via sysfs

Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:29:18 -06:00
James Smart
2fb9bd8b9c [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Discovery Fixes
Discovery Fixes:
 - Prevent starting discovery of a node if discovery is in progress.
 - Code improvement (reduction) for lpfc_findnode_did().
 - Update discovery to send RFF to Fabric on link up
 - Bypass unique WWN checks for fabric addresses
 - Add ndlp to plogi list prior to issuing the plogi els command

Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:28:43 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori
0e5d030bef [SCSI] scsi tgt: IBM eServer i/pSeries virtual SCSI target driver
This is IBM Virtual SCSI target driver for tgt. The driver is based on
the original ibmvscsis driver:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/10/17/99

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:28:01 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori
26b1482344 [SCSI] scsi tgt: SCSI RDMA Protocol library functions
libsrp provides helper functions for SRP target drivers.

Some SRP target drivers would be out of drivers/scsi/ so we added an
entry for libsrp in drivers/scsi/Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:27:33 -06:00
James Bottomley
c603d04ef6 [SCSI] 53c700: brown paper bag fix for auto request sense
In the switch over, I forgot to set the command length, so it sends out
a request sense with whatever length the prior command had (and fails
badly if it wasn't 6).

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:26:48 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
46ddab7b1c [SCSI] qla2xxx: use NULL instead of 0
Use NULL instead of 0 for pointers (sparse warning):
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c:393:4: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-12-03 09:24:01 -06:00
Matt LaPlante
0779bf2d2e Fix misc .c/.h comment typos
Fix various .c/.h typos in comments (no code changes).

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:24:39 +01:00
FUJITA Tomonori
0d2db302f9 [SCSI] scsi-ml: Makefile and Kconfig changes for tgt
Makefile and Kconfig for tgt.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-25 13:17:52 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori
97f78759ea [SCSI] scsi tgt: scsi target user and kernel communication interface
The user-space daemon and tgt kernel module need bi-directional
kernel/user high-performance interface, however, mainline provides no
standard interface like that.

This patch adds shared memory interface between kernel and user spaces
like some other drivers do by using own character device. The
user-space daemon and tgt kernel module creates shared memory via mmap
and use it like ring buffer. poll (kernel to user) and write (user to
kernel) system calls are used for notification.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-25 13:17:38 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori
5a55c2596f [SCSI] scsi tgt: scsi target lib functionality
The core scsi target lib functions.

TODO:
- mv md/dm-bio-list.h to linux/bio-list.h so md and us do not have to
do that weird include.
- convert scsi_tgt_cmd's work struct to James's execute code. And try
to kill our scsi_tgt_cmd.
- add host state checking. We do refcouting so hotplug is partially
supported, but we need to add state checking to make it easier on
the LLD.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-25 13:17:18 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori
b58d91547f [SCSI] export scsi-ml functions needed by tgt_scsi_lib and its LLDs
This patch contains the needed changes to the scsi-ml for the target
mode support.

Note, per the last review we moved almost all the fields we added
to the scsi_cmnd to our internal data structure which we are going
to try and kill off when we can replace it with support from other
parts of the kernel.

The one field we left on was the offset variable. This is needed to handle
the case where the target gets request that is so large that it cannot
execute it in one dma operation. So max_secotors or a segment limit may
limit the size of the transfer. In this case our tgt core code will
break up the command into managable transfers and send them to the
LLD one at a time. The offset is then used to tell the LLD where in
the command we are at. Is there another field on the scsi_cmd for
that?

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-25 13:08:56 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
84ad58e4ef [SCSI] initio: fix section mismatches with HOTPLUG=n
WARNING: drivers/scsi/initio.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'i91u_detect' (at offset 0x26e8) and 'i91uSCBPost'
WARNING: drivers/scsi/initio.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:i91u_pci_devices from .text between 'i91u_detect' (at offset 0x26ef) and 'i91uSCBPost'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-25 09:26:56 -06:00
Andrew Vasquez
1e99e33ad9 [SCSI] qla2xxx: add asynchronous scsi scanning support.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-22 16:43:28 -06:00
Andrew Vasquez
d19044c32b [SCSI] qla2xxx: defer topology discovery to DPC thread during initialization.
Modify intialization semantics:

- perform basic hardware configuration only (as usual)
  - allocate resources
  - load and execute firmware

- defer link (transport) negotiations to the DPC thread
  - again the code in qla2x00_initialize_adapter() to stall probe()
    completion was needed for legacy-style scanning.
  - DPC thread stalls until probe() complete.

- before probe() completes, set DPC flags to perform loop-resync logic
  (similar to what's done during cable-insertion/removal).

Benefits: user does not have to wait 20+ seconds in case the FC cable
is unplugged during driver load, code consolidation (removal of
redundant link negotiation logic during initialize_adaoter()), and
finilly, the driver no longer needs to defer the fc_remote_port_add()
calls to hold off lun-scanning prior to returning from the probe()
function.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-22 16:43:16 -06:00
Matthew Wilcox
1aa8fab2ac [SCSI] Make scsi_scan_host work for drivers which find their own targets
If a driver can find its own targets, it can now fill in scan_finished and
(optionally) scan_start in the scsi_host_template.  Then, when it calls
scsi_scan_host(), it will be called back (from a thread if asynchronous
discovery is enabled), first to start the scan, and then at intervals to
check if the scan is completed.

Also make scsi_prep_async_scan and scsi_finish_async_scan static.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-22 16:42:42 -06:00
Matthew Wilcox
93b45af5c6 [SCSI] fix missing check for no scanning
Drivers that called scsi_scan_target() instead of scsi_scan_host() were
still adding devices; this needs to be under the control of userspace,
not the driver.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-22 16:41:52 -06:00
Matthew Wilcox
21db1882f7 [SCSI] Add Kconfig option for asynchronous SCSI scanning
Without this patch, the user has to add a kernel command line parameter
to get asynchronous SCSI scanning.  Now they can select the default at
compile time and still override it at boot time if they need to.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-22 16:41:09 -06:00
Mark Haverkamp
902762831c [SCSI] aacraid: Driver version update
Received from Mark Salyzyn:

Version patch, update to reflect a rough estimate of the Adaptec build
(2423) that coincides with the sources on kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-22 12:29:53 -06:00
Mark Haverkamp
d18b448fc2 [SCSI] aacraid: Abort management FIBs
Received from Mark Salyzyn:

Add code to abort outstanding management ioctl fibs when the blinkLED recovery
is performed. This code is 'clunky' and does not have any real feedback in that
the reset could progress before the user application has gotten it's
notification of command completion. We put a schedule() call to delay just the
right amount for most cases, because we tried a spin and still managed to find
cases where we would spin forever waiting for the management application to
acknowledge the impending doom surrounding the cause of the BlinkLED. Will
cause an oops in the context of the management application if we proceed too
quickly. I view this as the lesser of many evils since currently if there are
outstanding management ioctls during a need to reset/recover the adapter, the
management application just locks up and waits forever. The best practices fix
for this problem not going to be simple or easy (at least the fixes I imagine
today); and we found a balance between the needs of the driver to proceed, and
the applications that locked or confused that would hold back the driver. I
just do not like the idea of a kernel oops in an application to deal with low
priority, sluggish or misbehaving applications.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-22 12:29:17 -06:00