Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.20-rc4

[Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 11:16 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:04:03AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
>>> This is mainly bug fixes, although there are a few harmless updates
>>> (like email addresses and driver PCI IDs).  The patch is available here:
>> Could I ask that you add
>>
>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=116793460427798&w=2
> 
> OK ... how about a title, changelog and signoff for it?

Titles and sign-offs don't necessarily help. For example:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=116797255528029&w=2

Followed by this misdirected ** post from Eric Moore
which you and I also received:

On Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:39 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:

> >
> > This patch makes the mptctl pass through available if
> > the mptsas driver is selected. Without this patch
> > if mptsas is the only fusion driver chosen, then
> > the mptctl is not presented as an option.
> >
> > smp_utils uses the mptctl driver to pass SAS SMP
> > functions through a MPT SAS HBA.
> >
> > I have discussed this patch with Eric and it may
> > be in one of his coming patchsets (but I didn't see
> > it in today's patches). So this one is for the
> > record. The patch is against lk 2.6.20-rc3 .
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
> >

Sorry I overlooked this, but please apply.

ACK



** linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org strikes again.

Doug Gilbert