Re: [PATCH 3/5] st: get rid of scsi_tapes array

From: Lee Duncan
Date: Thu May 17 2012 - 11:28:27 EST


Ok, understood.

On 05/17/2012 12:35 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 20:56 -0700, Lee Duncan wrote:
>> st currently allocates an array to store pointers to all of the
>> scsi_tape objects. It's used to discover available indexes to use as the
>> base for the minor number selection and later to look up scsi_tape
>> devices for character devices.
>>
>> We switch to using an IDR for minor selection and a pointer from
>> st_modedef back to scsi_tape for the lookups.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx>
>
> This can't be Reviewed-by either. The signoff chain has to follow the
> transmission path of the patch. If you send me Jeff's patches, you have
> to add a signoff because you're a direct part of the transmission path.
> If Jeff sends me them, then he can give you Reviewed-by because you're
> not then in the direct transmission path. (Signoff is supposed to imply
> reviewed by anyway, so the tagging is correct in either case).
>
> James
>
>
>

--
Lee Duncan

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