Re: INITIO scsi driver fails to work properly

James Bottomley
2007-12-17T15:03:09Z

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 14:36 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:40:53 +0200
> Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 17 2007 at 15:05 +0200, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > >> initio doesn't seem to have a maintainer...
> > >>
> > >> Are you able to identify any earlier kernel which worked OK?
> > >>
> > >> Maybe it's a new device? If you can get the `lspci -vvxx' output
> > >> for that device we can take a look.
> > >
> > > If I remember rightly the fixes for this went into the scsi tree a couple
> > > of months ago. The patch is in the -mm tree as well. No idea why its
> > > gotten stuck as an obvious one liner.
> > >
> > > Alan
> > > -
> > You mean this one:
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ba2c270154cc90c9a8bfc45b7bed4cca78c75aaf
> >
> > It's only queued for 2.6.25 via scsi-misc.
> >
> > I have found another bug. (See other mail in thread). I Will wait for testing
> > and submit a proper patch.
>
> That one yes - which really should have gone straight into the main tree
> as the initio driver has been broken all the time it sits queued for
> future patches. It can't make the problem any worse - the driver does not
> work.

Well, the change log isn't very committal for "rush me immediately into
main line" plus, as far as I could dig out, there was no confirmation
that it actually worked. This way, I can now say please try the current
-mm kernel to the bug reporter and we get to see if this fixes the
problem.

James