lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [May]   [22]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [more markup]  [less markup]  [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
DateThu, 22 May 2008 20:25:43 -0700
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.26-rc2-mm1 (SCSI_DH build errors)
On Thu, 15 May 2008 12:56:14 -0700 Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi James, Andrew,> > Here is a patch to remove the automatic "select" of scsi_dh for
> dm-multipath.
> 
> Sorry about the mishap.
>
>

This is busted.

> Do not automatically "select" SCSI_DH for dm-multipath. If SCSI_DH
> doesn't exist,just do not allow  hardware handlers to be used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> Index: scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- scsi-misc-2.6.orig/drivers/md/Kconfig
> +++ scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig
> @@ -252,7 +252,6 @@ config DM_ZERO
>  config DM_MULTIPATH
>  	tristate "Multipath target"
>  	depends on BLK_DEV_DM
> -	select SCSI_DH
>  	---help---
>  	  Allow volume managers to support multipath hardware.
> 
> Index: scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> ===================================================================
> --- scsi-misc-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> +++ scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> @@ -664,6 +664,8 @@ static int parse_hw_handler(struct arg_s
>  	request_module("scsi_dh_%s", m->hw_handler_name);
>  	if (scsi_dh_handler_exist(m->hw_handler_name) == 0) {
>  		ti->error = "unknown hardware handler type";
> +		kfree(m->hw_handler_name);
> +		m->hw_handler_name = NULL;
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  	consume(as, hw_argc - 1);
> Index: scsi-misc-2.6/include/scsi/scsi_dh.h
> ===================================================================
> --- scsi-misc-2.6.orig/include/scsi/scsi_dh.h
> +++ scsi-misc-2.6/include/scsi/scsi_dh.h
> @@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ enum {
>  	SCSI_DH_NOSYS,
>  	SCSI_DH_DRIVER_MAX,
>  };
> -
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_DH
>  extern int scsi_dh_activate(struct request_queue *);
>  extern int scsi_dh_handler_exist(const char *);
> +#else
> +inline int scsi_dh_activate(struct request_queue *req)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +inline int scsi_dh_handler_exist(const char *name)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +#endif

You obviously wanted `static inline' there, but it still fails i386
allmodconfig compilation.



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-05-23 05:29    [from the cache]
©2003-2008