Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:10:47 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: fix error reporting for SG_IO |
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:53:54 -0500 "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> wrote:
> This fixes a problem with the way cciss was filling out the "errors" > field of the request structure upon completion of requests. > Previously, it just put a 1 or a 0 in there and used the negation > of this as the uptodate parameter to one of the functions in the > block layer, being a block device. For the SG_IO ioctl, this was not > sufficient, and we noticed that, for example, sg_turs from sg3_utils > did not correctly detect problems due to cciss having set rq->errors > incorrectly.
Do we think this problem is sufficiently serious to merit merging this (largeish) patch into 2.6.23?
I'm thinking "no", but that might be wrong... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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