From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934571AbXGaVup (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:50:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761872AbXGaVue (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:50:34 -0400 Received: from mailgw.cvut.cz ([147.32.3.235]:47536 "EHLO mailgw.cvut.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760556AbXGaVud (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:50:33 -0400 Message-ID: <46AFAE3D.7000109@vandrovec.name> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:48:45 -0700 From: Petr Vandrovec User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070715 Iceape/1.1.3 (Debian-1.1.3-1) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley CC: Maarten Bressers , dsd@gentoo.org, mpt_linux_developer@lsi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Inclusion of vmware mptbase regression fix References: <20070731202402.63f55ae5@localhost> <1185914967.3468.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1185914967.3468.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:24 +0200, Maarten Bressers wrote: >> Hi Petr, >> >> The patch you posted for the MPT Fusion driver regression with VMware >> 5.5.4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/23/345) was used to fix a Gentoo >> kernel bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185272). >> >> Have you received word from upstream (kernel devs) yet as to whether >> your patch will be included? Or if it will be included at all? > > That's a slightly worse version of this patch. > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=117432237404247 > > And the answer's still the same: fix the vmware fusion emulation ... > it's a software thing too. It is already fixed in WS6.0, and I latest Fusion beta has fixed this as well. Petr