Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:53:05 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: cciss updates for 2.4.22-pre6 |
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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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