On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 08:41 +0530, Sujit Reddy Thumma wrote:
> On 8/23/2013 11:47 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 00:35 +0530, Santosh Y wrote:
> >> From: Sujit Reddy Thumma <sthu...@codeaurora.org>
> >>
> >> As part of device initialization sequence, sending NOP OUT UPIU and
> >> waiting for NOP IN UPIU response is mandatory. This confirms that the
> >> device UFS Transport (UTP) layer is functional and the host can configure
> >> the device with further commands. Add support for sending NOP OUT UPIU to
> >> check the device connection path and test whether the UTP layer on the
> >> device side is functional during initialization.
> >>
> >> A tag is acquired from the SCSI tag map space in order to send the device
> >> management command. When the tag is acquired by internal command the scsi
> >> command is rejected with host busy flag in order to requeue the request.
> >> To avoid frequent collisions between internal commands and scsi commands
> >> the device management command tag is allocated in the opposite direction
> >> w.r.t block layer tag allocation.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sujit Reddy Thumma <sthu...@codeaurora.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dolev Raviv <dra...@codeaurora.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Santosh Y <santos...@gmail.com>
> >
> > This signoff chain looks wrong to me.  The patch has quite a long
> > history.  Originally, it was sent in by Sujit, then later resent by
> > Dolev with his signoff, then Sujit did a V2 which incorrectly seemed to
> > include Dolev's signoff (that's not correct: signoffs should follow the
> > chain of transmission, so a new patch wouldn't have a previous
> > transmission signoff).
> 
> Initially we had two patches -
> 
> scsi: ufs: add support for query requests authored by Dolev and
> scsi: ufs: Add support for sending NOP OUT UPIU authored by me.
> 
> Based on a possible design issue with the former patch, Dolev merged
> the patch into the later (NOP OUT patch).
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.msm/4202/focus=1505731
> 
> Since some of the contents are picked from the original patch during
> rework, I have asked Dolev include his Signed-off-by as a co-author.

OK thanks for the clarification, I redid the signoffs and rebased the
misc tree.

James



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