[PATCH] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers (was: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs)

[Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>]

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Hi Matthew, Hannes,

Any news on this? Where these patches stand now?
Are they accepted into linux-scsi?

On Wednesday 14 November 2007 13:39, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> hi Matthew,
>
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007 06:35, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > >> Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their
> > >> git tree. I did that and sent patches back. No reply since then.
> > >>
> > >> And mind you, the patch is not trying to do anything
> > >> complex, it mostly moves code around, removes 'inline',
> > >> adds 'const'. What should I think about it?
> > >
> > > I'm waiting for an ACK/NAK from Hannes, the maintainer.  What should I
> > > do?
>
> You could have informed me about this, and I would talk to Hannes
> myself. This would free up your mind from keeping track of this
> particular patch.
> Parallelize development, prevent things from being forgotten.
>
>
> Hi Hannes,
>
> > I haven't actually been able to test it here (too busy, sorry). If
> > someone else confirms it does it's job then
> >
> > Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
>
> It's not in my mailbox on this machine, gladly we have lkml archived
> in the Net. Here is a positive tester report:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/15/168:
>
> ======================
> Date	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:53:08 +0200
> From	Gabriel C <>
> Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/3] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers
>
> >> Compile tested and applies cleanly to 2.6.23.
> >> I don't have this hardware anymore and cannot run test these patches.
> >
> > I can test these patches on an aic7892 controller later on today if you
>
> want.
>
> Works fine for me tested on :
>
> 03:0e.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7892P U160/m
> [9005:008f] (rev 02)
>
> Gabriel
> =======================

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