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DateFri, 18 Jul 2003 08:53:05 +0200
FromJens Axboe <>
SubjectRe: cciss updates for 2.4.22-pre6
On Thu, Jul 17 2003, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> Here's another round of patches for the HP cciss driver in the attached tarball. These patches are intended for inclusion in the 2.4.22 kernel. This tarball contains 3 patches that should be applied in this order:
> 	1. cciss_2447_author_change.patch
> 	2. cciss_2447_shirq_fix2.patch
> 	3. cciss_2447_lock_fix.patch
> The first patch is a requirement from our legal types & management, the other 2 are bug fixes.
> Full comments & desciptions are in the patch files.
> 
> There will be more patches in the next few days. They will include:
> 	1. Failover support for multipath environments.
> 	2. devfs support.
> 	3. Support for more than 8 controllers.
> 
> Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

The shirq patch looks a bit suspect, don't you need at least a barrier
there? Also I'm curious what the problems are wrt the lock_fix?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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