From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8122] New: Scsi_Host's n_io_port forgot to be initialized? Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 07:31:45 +0000 Message-ID: <20070306073145.GA23842@infradead.org> References: <200703040919.l249JWSs008220@fire-2.osdl.org> <20070305191730.8f695adf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:59523 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933005AbXCFHbr (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 02:31:47 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070305191730.8f695adf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org" , shanlu@cs.uiuc.edu On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:17:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Most recent kernel where this bug did *NOT* occur: No > > Distribution: Linux-2.6.20 > > Problem Description: > > It seems that usually structure Scsi_Host's io_port field and n_io_port field > > needs to be set together. io_port and n_io_port are legacy fields left over purely for driver use. The scsi midlayer doesn't care, and if you want to "fix" things in this area please just remove use of it from the offending driver completely so might be able to get rid of these fields one day.