On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:40:52AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> A long time ago the unfortunate decision was taken to add a self-
> deletion attribute to the sysfs SCSI device directory. That decision
> was unfortunate because self-deletion is really tricky. We can't drop
> that attribute because widely used user space software depends on it,
> namely the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script. Hence this patch that avoids
> that writing into that attribute triggers a deadlock. See also commit
> 7973cbd9fbd9 ("[PATCH] add sysfs attributes to scan and delete
> scsi_devices").

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>

Thanks.

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tejun

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