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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc5: tape drive not responding
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:43:44 -0800
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:02:02 -0500
"John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org> wrote:

> 
> Just to confirm, the propsed patch to st.c fixes the issue with
> 2.6.24-rc5 as well at 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 with access to my DLT tape
> drives.

err, what patch to st.c?

So it seems that 2.6.24 (and presumably 2.6.23?) need

1: Alan's "initio: fix conflict when loading driver" (currently stocuk
   in git-scsi-misc)

2: Boaz's "initio: initio_build_scb() fix" (my name for it)

3: The mystery st.c fix.

yes?