Hi Arnd On 20 October 2016 at 14:36, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > On Thursday, October 20, 2016 2:24:01 PM CEST Binoy Jayan wrote: >> Semaphores are going away in the future, so replace the semaphore >> sync_request_sem with the a mutex lock. timeout_msecs is not used >> for the lock sync_request_sem, so remove the timed locking too. >> >> Signed-off-by: Binoy Jayan <binoy.ja...@linaro.org> > > The patch looks correct to me, but I think if you remove the support > for handling timeouts, you should update the prototype of > pqi_submit_raid_request_synchronous to no longer pass the timeout > argument in the first place.
But we still need "timeout_msecs" in a call to pqi_submit_raid_request_synchronous_with_io_request() drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c +3484 -Binoy
