From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.16-rc1 Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:18:26 -0600 Message-ID: <43DFF042.1050809@us.ibm.com> References: <1138741016.3307.20.camel@mulgrave> <43DFD316.3080100@us.ibm.com> <1138748990.3307.33.camel@mulgrave> Reply-To: brking@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:44442 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932078AbWAaXS2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:18:28 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0VNIRd9018210 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:18:27 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.8) with ESMTP id k0VNISAw172522 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:18:28 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0VNIRx7027951 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:18:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1138748990.3307.33.camel@mulgrave> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: SCSI Mailing List James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 15:13 -0600, Brian King wrote: >> Any reason the other sg patch I submitted didn't get pushed? > > Er ... I didn't notice it go by and no-one told me? > >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=113753907627483&w=2 >> >> I was hoping to see this one go into the rc fixes, since without >> it ipr's RAID configuration tools do not work. > > In theory, it only affects the sg path, the path via the ULD device node > should already be fixed, so any management tool could use the sd (or st > or sr) node instead ... you probably want to do that anyway to avoid > mapping issues between the sg and sd nodes. I already use the sd node when I can in ipr's RAID management tool, but for physical disks in RAID arrays and for the RAID adapter itself, only sg gets attached, so I have to use sg. Brian -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center