From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
"\"Jürgen E. Fischer\"" <fischer@norbit.de>,
"FUJITA Tomonori" <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] aha152x.c - Cleanup, need help in testing and auditing
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:17:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46962A06.3060500@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4695F76F.5000305@panasas.com>
Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> In motivation for the !use_sg cleanup and use of accessors
> I needed to do some restructuring of the aha152x.c driver.
>
> I have tried to be as careful as I could, but with out
> the hardware for testing, it is hard. Christoph and James
> You are signed on a couple of the last patches to this driver
> So you are probably somewhat familiar with the code. Could
> you please review the patchset to see that nothing is broken.
>
> If any one has an Hardware that uses aha152x.c, please help me
> with testing this patchset. If it does not work could you please
> do a short bisect of which patch breaks out of the 4.
>
> The problematic parts were that the driver writes all over the
> scsi_cmnd members in couple of places. To untangle that I divided
> the work to stages for easier review and testing. I was very
> verbose at each patch explanation, mainly for myself to try and
> prove that the changes are sound.
>
> [patch 1/4] aha152x.c - Preliminary fixes and comments
> Some weird typos and some hard coded numbers made the code
> very hard to understand.
>
> [patch 2/4] aha152x.c - Clean Reset path
> On the Reset code path the driver would save, write, than
> restore scsi_cmnd members. Here I propose a solution that
> does not need to do that.
>
> [patch 3/4] aha152x.c - Fix check_condition code-path
> In case of a Status return from a target. The driver
> would re-queue the command with a REQUEST_SENSE read.
> Again save, write, restore. I cleaned that up to a stage
> I can be happy with. Also while at it I fixed a BUG with
> "resid".
>
> [patch 4/4] aha152x.c - use data accessors and !use_sg cleanup
> And now everything is ready for this one.
>
> Thanks for any help
> Boaz
Ooff I forgot to:
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
all of these patches.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-12 9:42 [patch 0/4] aha152x.c - Cleanup, need help in testing and auditing Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-12 9:49 ` [patch 1/4] aha152x.c - Preliminary fixes and some comments Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-12 9:55 ` [patch 2/4] aha152x.c - Clean Reset path Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-12 10:05 ` [patch 3/4] aha152x.c - Fix check_condition code-path Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-12 10:09 ` [patch 4/4] aha152x.c - use data accessors and !use_sg cleanup Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-12 13:17 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2007-07-12 20:57 ` [patch 0/4] aha152x.c - Cleanup, need help in testing and auditing Randy Dunlap
2007-07-16 9:22 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-16 9:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-18 0:16 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-18 9:29 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-18 12:39 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-18 17:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-18 21:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-19 2:43 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-19 3:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-19 13:04 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-19 15:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-19 15:57 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-19 17:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-24 10:12 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-07-24 16:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-16 5:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-16 14:39 ` James Bottomley
2007-08-16 17:20 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-16 17:18 ` James Bottomley
2007-08-17 19:59 ` Randy Dunlap
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