Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches)

Andre Tomt
2004-10-11T18:22:22Z

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 10:02, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Andre Tomt wrote:
>>>"[PATCH]: megaraid 2.20.4: Fixes a data corruption bug"
>>
>>I think that one is already in the SCSI BK tree, just not pushed to me.
>>Perhaps because the tree contains other less important patches that James
>>doesn't think are worthy yet.. James? Should I just take the small
>>megaraid patch directly (and leave the compat ioctl cleanups etc to you)?
>
> I have no objections. However, I was planning on pushing it through the
> SCSI tree because it's in the new megaraid driver which is experimental
> at the moment (the old megaraid driver is still in and still
> selectable). It's been in -mm for a few days now with no ill effects, I
> think, but I'm not sure how many megaraid owners have actually tested
> it.

I've been running 2.20.3.1 + the data corruption bug fix on megaraids
ranging from low-end SATA adapters to the u320scsi ones for a while on a
2.6.8 based kernel, nothing have blown up yet. The old 2.20.3.1 without
the fix have been holding up too though - however having a known data
corruption bug lingering doesn't feel so good :-)