From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: Inclusion of vmware mptbase regression fix Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:49:27 -0500 Message-ID: <1185914967.3468.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070731202402.63f55ae5@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:39151 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756202AbXGaUta (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:49:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070731202402.63f55ae5@localhost> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Maarten Bressers Cc: petr@vandrovec.name, dsd@gentoo.org, mpt_linux_developer@lsi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:24 +0200, Maarten Bressers wrote: > Hi Petr, > > The patch you posted for the MPT Fusion driver regression with VMware > 5.5.4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/23/345) was used to fix a Gentoo > kernel bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185272). > > Have you received word from upstream (kernel devs) yet as to whether > your patch will be included? Or if it will be included at all? That's a slightly worse version of this patch. http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=117432237404247 And the answer's still the same: fix the vmware fusion emulation ... it's a software thing too. James