Re: 2.6.3 adaptec I2O will not compile

[Jaco Kroon <jkroon@cs.up.ac.za>]

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Eek, that does not bear good.  Somebody else mailed me this patch, so 
would you mind sending me your orriginal patch for comparison?

And I assume that the scsi_unregister call should in fact not be in 
there?  If I understand it correctly there is either some function that 
first calls adpt_release (from the address given in the info struct) and 
then scsi_unregister, or scsi_unregister itself calls us.

Btw, none of this code was yet incorporated into the 2.6.3 kernel which 
is why I started looking around for patches and actually looking at 
making the changes myself.  Btw, I also note that a couple of free's has 
moved around - this gives me the idea that either a memory corruption 
bug has been fixed (which leaves at least two of our machines in danger 
of crashing) or a memory leak has been introduced.  Or is it simply that 
memory handling has been optimized a bit?

Jaco

Salyzyn, Mark wrote:

>My code fragment has (original multiversion and version in 2.4.24):
>
>/*
> * scsi_unregister will be called AFTER we return.
> */
>static int adpt_release(struct Scsi_Host *host)
>{
>        adpt_hba* pHba = (adpt_hba*) host->hostdata[0];
>//      adpt_i2o_quiesce_hba(pHba);
>        adpt_i2o_delete_hba(pHba);
>        return 0;
>}
>
>So I am unsure as to how *that* (the scsi_unregister call) got in there
>in the 2.6.3 stream. adpt_i2o_queisce was commented out in version 2.4.5
>of the driver (Prior to the `historical documents' and at least the
>in-box driver for RH7.3). It was not part of the 2.6.2 tree I based my
>patch on and not part of the submitted 2.6 patch for the dpt_i2o driver.
>
>adpt_i2o_quiesce tells the adapter to stop all activity, including
>builds, and is a blocking command with a 4 minute timeout.
>
>Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Lang [mailto:david.lang@digitalinsight.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:24 AM
>To: Salyzyn, Mark; Jaco Kroon
>Cc: Adrian Bunk; Linux Kernel Mailing List
>Subject: Re: 2.6.3 adaptec I2O will not compile
>
>Mark, do you have any comments on this?
>
>On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Jaco Kroon wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:28:14 -0800
>>From: Jaco Kroon <jkroon@cs.up.ac.za>
>>To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
>>Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
>>     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
>>Subject: Re: 2.6.3 adaptec I2O will not compile
>>
>>David Lang wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I received a post from Mark Salyzyn with a new driver that does
>>>      
>>>
>>compile,
>>    
>>
>>>he said that he has submitted the patches (I didn't get a chance to
>>>      
>>>
>try
>  
>
>>>the new kernel yet, I expect to do that shortly and will report any
>>>problems)
>>>
>>>D
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Somebody just mailed me a patch too, but I found the following
>>discrepancy:
>>
>>/*
>> * scsi_unregister will be called AFTER we return.
>> */
>>static int adpt_release(struct Scsi_Host *host)
>>{
>>    adpt_hba* pHba = (adpt_hba*) host->hostdata[0];
>>//  adpt_i2o_quiesce_hba(pHba);
>>    adpt_i2o_delete_hba(pHba);
>>    scsi_unregister(host);
>>    return 0;
>>}
>>
>>This is used to release the host, now read the comment, and then the
>>line just before the return.  This line was added by the patch, which
>>also commented out the quiesce line.  Is it possible to get any
>>confirmation on how this is supposed to function?
>>
>>Jaco
>>
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