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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Separate target visibility from reaped state
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 18:17:27 +0100
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Cc: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>, Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 08:11:29PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> I am concerned about queuing something as a stable fix if it is just
> masking a fundamental underlying problem.

It's not masking a fundamental problem.  It fixes the target
state so that we can mark a starget as being under deletion
before we have to drop the list protecting the target list
iteration.  Independ of any any other scanning changes it is the
right thing to do.