Re: [RFC, PATCH v2] SCSI tape: MTIOCSENSE ioctl to return the sense data from errors

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 17:24 +0300, Kai Makisara wrote:
> Here is the second version of the proposed MTIOCSENSE patch. The changes from
> the first version are:
> 
> 1. The command descriptor block (up to 16 bytes) is included in the
> result. The cost is small but the exact command can be useful in
> interpretation of the sense data.
> 
> 2. The residual from the HBA is included in the returned data.
> 
> 3. Randy's documentation fix.
> 
> 4. Computation of the length field uses also the additional length field in
> the sense data.
> 
> The stsense utility at URL http://www.kolumbus.fi/kai.makisara/st.html has 
> been updated to use the new ioctl definition.
> 
> The patch below this text applies to 2.6.26-rc9 plus the two bug fixes I have
> sent to linux-scsi (applies with offsets without these fixes).

You listed this as an RFC, so I haven't done anything with it but if you
want this in for 2.6.27 you'd better change that to a proper PATCH
before the merge window closes.

James