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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:44:08 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cciss:fix regression firmware not displayed in
 procfs (again and again)
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:23:22 -0500
Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> wrote:

> Patch 2 of 2

What happened with "1 of 2"?

> Sorry for the delay. I've been out of the office and the network has been
> down since before lunch CDT. This regression was introduced by commit
> 6ae5ce8e8d4de666f31286808d2285aa6a50fa40.
> This patch fixes a regression where the controller firmware version is not
> displayed in procfs. The previous patch would be called anytime something
> changed. This will get called only once for each controller.
> 
> In this patch I again initialize *inq_buff to NULL per Tomo's comments. I
> also use a goto clean 4 instead of returning -ENOMEM if the kzalloc fails.
> 
> I hope this finally meets everyones expectations.
> 
> Please consider this for inclusion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>

So this fix is needed in 2.6.27.x, yes?