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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 aacraid: rx check health function update
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:16:53 +0100
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To: "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
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On Fri, Nov 05 2004, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> The bad adapter health is the KERNEL_PANIC (Adapter Kernel Panic, an
> indication that a serious hardware problem has been detected inside the
> adapter), the allocation failure means we provide a less detailed
> indication of failure to the upper layers. If the allocation succeeds,
> then the result will indicate the `blink code' which our technical
> support departments can decode into a pinpoint of a subsystem failure.

Makes sense, in that case the patch is fine.

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Jens Axboe