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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com" 
	<James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI IOCTL: Check for device deletion [was Re: __elv_add_request OOPS]
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:03:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimWPWc4k2_q0KZpmWo9G93UmVWoxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1105251548420.2742@ubuntu-natty>

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +static inline int sdev_early_check(struct scsi_device *sdev)
> +{
> +       if (!sdev || sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_DEL
> +               || sdev->sdev_state > SDEV_QUIESCE)
> +               return -ENXIO;
> +       return 0;
> +}

Can somebody explain why it's those states, and nothing else?

Quite frankly, if it's about "don't oops on sdev->queue not existing",
then test for that. Not for some random and uncommented list of
states.

                          Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24  4:29 __elv_add_request OOPS Parag Warudkar
2011-05-24 10:44 ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-24 10:44   ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-25  1:41   ` [PATCH] SCSI IOCTL: Check for device deletion [was Re: __elv_add_request OOPS] Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25  1:41     ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25  7:37     ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-25  7:37       ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-25 18:44       ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 18:44         ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 18:55         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 18:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 19:02           ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-25 19:02             ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-25 19:13             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 19:13               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 19:17               ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-25 19:17                 ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-25 19:52                 ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 19:52                   ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 20:03                   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-05-25 20:03                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 20:18                     ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 20:18                       ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 20:26                       ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 20:26                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 20:42                         ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 20:42                           ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 20:52                           ` James Bottomley
2011-05-25 23:00                             ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 23:14                               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-25 23:45                                 ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 23:52                                   ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]                               ` <1306370123.1641.76.camel@mulgrave.site>
2011-05-26  1:01                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-26  1:06                                   ` James Bottomley
2011-05-26  1:43                                 ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-27  3:53                             ` James Bottomley
2011-05-27  5:43                               ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-27 20:21                                 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-27 20:21                                   ` James Bottomley
2011-05-28 12:42                                   ` Jens Axboe
2011-05-28 12:42                                     ` Jens Axboe
2011-06-08  6:50                                   ` Torsten Hilbrich
2011-06-08  6:50                                     ` Torsten Hilbrich
2011-05-25 20:20                     ` James Bottomley
2011-05-25 20:22                       ` Parag Warudkar
2011-05-25 20:29                         ` James Bottomley
2011-05-25 20:26   ` __elv_add_request OOPS James Bottomley

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