Re: [patch 0/4] aha152x.c - Cleanup, need help in testing and auditing

[Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>]

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> Yes, this problem has been around forever AFAIK.  You didn't add
> to it.
Do we need to file a bug report in Bugzilla or something, so people have a 
documentation of the work-around, until it is fixed?

I think that for now I will wrap it up as it is. Could you send me the right
BUG_ON() in place, with a printk pointing users to a solution? and I'll 
redo all the patches.

>>
>> One more thing if I may? Do you have at hand an old Zip cartridge that 
>> has bad sectors or other errors on it. My motivation is to exercise the
>> Sense return code-path. I would like to make sure that its doing the 
>> expected. It is the part that changed the most.
>> I will try to look if there is a way to send a scsi_read using sg3_utils that 
>> will read passed the media capacity, and will trigger a short read. I guess
>> on an unmounted device. Douglas?
> 
> No, I don't have any bad media that I know of.
> I suggest that you look into the "Fault-injection framework"
> (CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION) to see if it can inject some errors for you.
> 
  Oh, I didn't realize there is one. OK nice I will look into it, thanks.
> ---
> ~Randy
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Boaz