Re: changes to ieee1394/sbp2 outside of linux1394.org

Ben Collins
2005-07-09T19:22:35Z

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:41:20PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:49 -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > It's not the lock change that is breaking things, it's the RBC changes.
> > SBP2 simply doesn't work (incorrect information read from the driver,
> > which I assume is bad translation of the scsi commands caused by the
> > changes).
>
> The RBC changes were tested out by Al Viro and seemed to work well.
>
> The intent of the changes looks good (bringing TYPE_RBC into SCSI where
> it belongs and updating sd.c to handle RBC differences), so probably
> what needs to happen is that we fix whatever's broken in the current
> TYPE_RBC framework.

It just may be that SBP2 doesn't work well with the changes. There's a
little bit of workarounds and massaging to get things to work on most SBP2
drives. This may be one more thing that needs some massaging.

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