From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: INITIO scsi driver fails to work properly Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:03:01 -0600 Message-ID: <1197903781.3204.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <9f00bd9d0712170139q1397af5fp3c855a2b94726227@mail.gmail.com> <20071217031841.f483e5ac.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071217130523.7e9c88bb@the-village.bc.nu> <47668A75.7040707@panasas.com> <20071217143641.760d4162@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from adsl-76-243-235-52.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net ([76.243.235.52]:54249 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753907AbXLQPDJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:03:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071217143641.760d4162@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Boaz Harrosh , Andrew Morton , Filippos Papadopoulos , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 14:36 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:40:53 +0200 > Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 17 2007 at 15:05 +0200, Alan Cox wrote: > > >> initio doesn't seem to have a maintainer... > > >> > > >> Are you able to identify any earlier kernel which worked OK? > > >> > > >> Maybe it's a new device? If you can get the `lspci -vvxx' output > > >> for that device we can take a look. > > > > > > If I remember rightly the fixes for this went into the scsi tree a couple > > > of months ago. The patch is in the -mm tree as well. No idea why its > > > gotten stuck as an obvious one liner. > > > > > > Alan > > > - > > You mean this one: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ba2c270154cc90c9a8bfc45b7bed4cca78c75aaf > > > > It's only queued for 2.6.25 via scsi-misc. > > > > I have found another bug. (See other mail in thread). I Will wait for testing > > and submit a proper patch. > > That one yes - which really should have gone straight into the main tree > as the initio driver has been broken all the time it sits queued for > future patches. It can't make the problem any worse - the driver does not > work. Well, the change log isn't very committal for "rush me immediately into main line" plus, as far as I could dig out, there was no confirmation that it actually worked. This way, I can now say please try the current -mm kernel to the bug reporter and we get to see if this fixes the problem. James