From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/sd.c: fix uninitialized variable in handling medium errors
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:37:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445090D4.2070203@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060426163536.6f7bff77.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> block, I suspect. My DVD trauma was IDE-induced. Jens is mulling the
> problem - I'd suggest you coordinate with him.
>
> It would be a good thing to fix.
>
> It's moderately hard to test, though. Easy enough for DVDs and CDs, but
> it's harder to take a marker pen to a hard drive.
>
If it's in the block layer, perhaps using a device mapper error target
can help in testing. One could write a table to map an entire partition
to a logical volume, then replace it with a table that maps a few
sectors to the error target.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-27 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-26 20:27 [PATCH] drivers/scsi/sd.c: fix uninitialized variable in handling medium errors Mark Lord
2006-04-26 20:52 ` Mark Lord
2006-04-26 22:56 ` James Bottomley
2006-04-26 23:04 ` Mark Lord
2006-04-26 23:18 ` James Bottomley
2006-04-26 23:28 ` Mark Lord
2006-04-26 23:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-26 23:20 ` Mark Lord
2006-04-26 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-27 1:43 ` Mark Lord
2006-04-27 9:28 ` Rogier Wolff
2006-04-27 9:37 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2006-04-27 16:03 ` Mark Lord
2006-04-26 23:22 ` James Bottomley
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