From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Subject: Re: [BUG?] GDTH driver not working after upgrade to 2.6.24 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:35:49 +0200 Message-ID: <47A1C0A5.7090303@panasas.com> References: <47A19E26.30107@panasas.com> <47A1ABF8.4050408@upb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from gw-colo-pa.panasas.com ([66.238.117.130]:10838 "EHLO cassoulet.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764437AbYAaMgm (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:36:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47A1ABF8.4050408@upb.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= , James Bottomley , Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-scsi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 13:07 +0200, Sven K=F6hler wro= te: >> Yes the gdth driver passed an open hart surgery in kernel 2.6.24. Th= e bad thing >> about it is that all three of the Coders that did that did not have = any HW to work >> on. One of them is me. We did cry for tester for a long time but no = one came forward. >=20 > All i'd like to ask is WHY!? > WHY such a big open heart surgery? > OK, you have your reasons. >=20 >> Could you test patches for us? first thing would be to enable debug = output patch below. >=20 > The machine is still production. It will be replaced by a 64bit syste= m=20 > with an AACRAID card some time in the future. Then, i could maybe tes= t=20 > patches on the old machine. But unfortunatly, it's not my machine. It= 's=20 > just administrated by me. And i don't know, what's exactly is the fut= ure=20 > of it. >=20 >> If you absolutely need a 2.6.24 kernel, + gdth in a production syste= m you could >> checkout the 2.6.23 driver and compile. The old driver will work the= same in 2.6.24. >> It will not however even compile in 2.6.25-rcx. >=20 > I see. Thanks for the hint. Would be an alternative. Actually, i don'= t=20 > need 2.6.24 - but if something security related is fixed, then i'm no= t=20 > able to move on to 2.6.24. And i'm using Gentoo. There's not really a= =20 > kernel maintained by the distribution. >=20 >> If any one wants to send me a card that uses the gdth driver, I will= be very happy >> to debug this card, and return it once I'm done. >=20 > I don't think, it's a seperate card, that i could send you. It's some= =20 > 19" rack server with such a card on-board, i think. >=20 >=20 > So it don't see much opportunity for me to test patched and stuff :-( >=20 Thanks, Perhaps someone else then.=20 Anyone with gdth HW that can test patches? Your lspci said: "Intel Corporation RAID Controller" Matthew is there a gdth card lying around in an Intel lab near you? James do we need to mark gdth BROKEN for 2.6.24 and higher? Boaz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html