On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 11:40 -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").[ ... ] During my kernel tests of today I noticed that this patch makes booting significantly slower: boot time for a VM increases from 6s to 157s. Martin, please drop this patch series. Thanks, Bart.
