[dm-devel] [PATCH 08/17] scsi_dh_alua: Make stpg synchronous

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 05/11/2015 08:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:42:14PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> We should be issuing STPG synchronously as we need to
>> evaluate the return code on failure.
> 
> How does this fit into the calling convention?  It seems like generally
> dm-mpath expects async execution of ->activate.  If we don't actually need
> asynchronous activation we should remove it from all the drivers to have
> a consistent calling convention.
> 
This is just an intermediate step, before the entire thing moves off
to a workqueue and becomes asynchronous again.
It's not meant to be as a standalone patch; I've just split it off
for easier review.

Cheers,

Hannes
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