[PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup
KY Srinivasan
kys at microsoft.com
Thu Jun 30 23:32:34 UTC 2011
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch at infradead.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 3:34 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh at suse.de; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; virtualization at lists.osdl.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:38:21AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Further cleanup of the hv drivers:
> >
> > 1) Cleanup the reference counting mess for both stor and net devices.
>
> I really don't understand the need for reference counting on the storage
> side, especially now that you only have a SCSI driver. The SCSI
> midlayer does proper counting on it's objects (Scsi_Host, scsi_device,
> scsi_cmnd), so you'll get that for free given that SCSI drivers just
> piggyback on the midlayer lifetime rules.
>
> For now your patches should probably go in as-is, but mid-term you
> should be able to completely remove that code on the storage side.
>
Greg,
I am thinking of going back to my original implementation where I had one scsi host
per IDE device. This will certainly simply the code. Let me know what you think. If you
agree with this approach, please drop this patch-set, I will send you a new set of patches.
Regards,
K. Y
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