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147623574235_592060007474Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:25:08PM -0700, David Miller wrote: Unfortunately it doesnt build. The drivers/scsi/pluto.c part fails with: drivers/scsi/pluto.c: In function $,1rxpluto_detect$

 
169920324272_547260007824Gilbert Wu
1. Create a file "update_bios" in sysfs to allow user to update bios from user space. 2. The aic94xx BIOS image file can be downloaded from web site " rel="nofollow" ww

 
135220794319_579260007822Rolf Eike Beer
--- Gilbert Wu <Gilbert_Wu@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 1. Create a file "update_bios" in sysfs to allow user to update bios from user space. 2. The BIOS image file can be downloa

 
184729494416_585660007226Gilbert Wu
Hi Eike, Thanks! I will correct it. Gilbert -----Original Message----- From: Rolf Eike Beer [ rel="nofollow" mailto:eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx mailto:eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx ] Sent: Thursday, Octob

 
162628084816_575560007815Gilbert Wu
Hi All, Sorry, This patch is still missing some whitepace. Please ignore this patch and I will resend it. Thanks! Gilbert On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 16:02 -0700, Gilbert Wu wrote: 1. Create a file

 
165228894171_588760007964Gilbert Wu
Gilbert Wu wrote: diff -urN a/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c b/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c --- a/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c 2007-10-10 17:13:29.000000000 -0700 +++ b/dr

 
136125074997_563360007959Matthew Wilcox
Greetings, I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on something.. its probably a quick one for anyone (unlike myself) who actually know the subsystem :) Im running into an issue using sg to

 
145723314037_577660007885Hannes Reinecke
sdparm is a command line utility designed to get and set SCSI device parameters (cf hdparm for ATA disks). The parameters are held in mode pages. Apart from SCSI devices (e.g. disks, tapes and enclos

 
159729704833_501360007155Hannes Reinecke

 
123924514963_505460007376Mike Christie

 
187028584264_504160007072Matthew Wilcox
Reviewed the code, and did not find any generic issues (other than what Mike Christie has stated). On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:55 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: Hi Alasdair, this is a patch to a

 
100421054580_500160007560Matthew Wilcox
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx diff --git a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c b/drivers/scsi/gdth.c index 55e4d2d..bfba877 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/gdth.c @@ -392,12 +3

 
196021954892_599860007014Darrick J Wong
If the aic94xx chip doesnt have a SAS address in the chips flash memory, make libsas get one for us. Also clean out some old code that had been used to do this in the past. Signed-off-by: Darrick J

 
188225694984_571560007809Jeff Garzik
Provide a facility to use the request_firmware() interface to get a SAS address from userspace. This can be used by SAS LLDDs that cannot obtain the address from the host adapter. Resend of 8 Oct.

 
187028214260_583360007467Boaz Harrosh
Thanks to acmes pahole utility, I found some places where we can save a lot of bytes in scsi_cmnd, just by rearranging struct elements and reducing the size of some elements. We go from 272 to 260

 
120827454324_547360007069Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:42:43AM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: Please dont do this patch for now. This is because of the soon to come scsi_data_buffer patch that rearages most of the members abov

 
154627914175_512560007915Darrick J Wong
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:06:01 -0600 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:42:43AM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: Please dont do this patch for now. This is because of

 
168627514109_557760007081Darrick J Wong
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007, Darrick J. Wong wrote: If the aic94xx chip doesnt have a SAS address in the chips flash memory, use the request_firmware() interface to get one from userspace. This way,

 
159126304650_557560007231James Smart
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007, Darrick J. Wong wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:48:32PM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: So how about factoring that out to a transport-level interface. How about so

 
138422144051_564560007927Darrick J Wong
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007, James Smart wrote: Why do you prefer request_firmware() vs something over sysfs ? Does environments like the kdump kernel also have access to data needed by request_

 
111122554671_543660007457Jeff Garzik

 
150522734247_568160007038Bernd Schubert
--- James Smart <James.Smart@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: Heres one pro for setting WWNs at arbitrary times... If the box is migrating applications (say containers) that want different SAN conne

 
159520854790_570560007538Bernd Schubert
[sorry for sending twice, but after I read the sil sources, I see the mail address had been wrong] Hi, somehow the sil3114 causes data corruption with some (newer?) disks. Simply filling the file

 
178622534167_543560007512Bernd Schubert
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 11:12:20 Bernd Schubert wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 17:09:17 Bernd Schubert wrote: [sorry for sending twice, but after I read the sil sources, I see the ma

 
166622124727_571760007774Bernd Schubert
This will add the sil3114 back to the controllers with the mod15 bug. Without this patch no workaround for this controller is done and people might/will suffer from data corruption. Also rather tr

 
164429684028_531460007757Jeff Garzik
-static void ata_fill_sg(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc) +void ata_fill_sg(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc) { struct ata_port *ap = qc- ap; struct scatterlist *sg; @@ -4217,10 +4217,15 @@ int a

 
177129104029_501860007429Jeff Garzik
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:19:37 Jeff Garzik wrote: 1) Just about the only valid optimization is to ensure that only the write path must be limited to small chunks, not both read- and write

 
105621854514_584660007176Jeff Garzik
On Thursday 11 October 2007 17:04:45 Jeff Garzik wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:19:37 Jeff Garzik wrote: 1) Just about the only valid optimization is to ensure

 
138326764429_555160007257Alan Cox
On Friday 12 October 2007 23:08:21 Jeff Garzik wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: a) 2.6.23 + sil-patch I posted, this is on a customer system (though my former group), I wouldnt like to use -mm

 
106327774469_579060007325Tejun Heo

 
156321374293_559260007697Soeren Sonnenburg
Hello Tejun, On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:08:01 Tejun Heo wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Alan Cox wrote: 2) Once we identified, over time, the set of drives affected by this 3112 quirk

 
134822234606_537860007196Matthew Wilcox
buf[i] can be up to 0xfd, so doubling it and assigning the result to an unsigned char truncates the value. Just use an unsigned int instead; its only a temporary. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <

 
180722974381_532160007271Matthew Wilcox
The midlayer wont scan the host ID, so we dont need to check. This is the only caller of sym_xpt_done2, so remove that too. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/scsi

 
149725274947_592660007056Jeff Garzik
Dont cache a private copy of the interrupt number Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c | 7 +++---- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.

 
118221414834_565260007327Jeff Garzik
Before all commands used sg, data_mapping and data_mapped were used to distinguish whether the command had used map_single or map_sg. Now all commands are sg, so we can delete data_mapping, data_map

 
197824944464_527060007917Matthew Wilcox
Instead of telling the reset routine that the command completed from sym_eh_done, do it from sym_xpt_done. The to_do element of the ucmd is redundant -- it serves only to tell whether eh_done is val

 
196824344139_557460007380Matthew Wilcox
Auke missed the sym2 driver in his initial sweep. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw.c | 6 +++--- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c

 
177026194678_515160007821Jeff Garzik
These macros arent needed any more. They used to be used for SPARC. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c | 11 ++++------- 1 files cha

 
142224374347_536860007425Jeff Garzik
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:59:47PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: NAK The proper format string is %u because irq is unsigned Ill change it to %u in the next revision. However, I respectfully decl

 
142525454566_525860007497Jeff Garzik
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:35:14AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Not true. The original code used int irq, and the printf format was correct as a result. You changed the code to use unsigned i

 
158621744992_504960007077Jeff Garzik
This structure is accessed by the device; the fewer Linux things in it, the better. Using the pci_dev pointer from the hostdata requires a lot of changes: - Pass Scsi_Host to a lot of routines whi

 
196724124512_510560007323Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:07:39PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Obviously this is a judgement call on your part... but did you at least consider passing sym_hcb for all cases instead? I did. Ther

 
148527564943_516260007883Matthew Wilcox

 
198423294319_533060007682Jeff Garzik
This function just printed a message to the user; move the print to its only caller, and turn it into an starget_printk. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/scsi/sy

 
175621234227_532260007424Jeff Garzik
Make sym_interrupt return an irqreturn_t instead of void, and take a Scsi_Host instead of a sym_hcb. Pass the Scsi_Host to the interrupt handler instead of the sym_hcb. Rename the host_data to sym_

 
182029674598_581160007042Jeff Garzik
From: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx This patch adds the PCI error recovery callbacks to the Symbios SCSI device driver. It includes support for First Failure Data Capture. Signed-off-by:

 
188929834454_540060007440Jeff Garzik
If we have a scsi_cmnd, it gives the user more information than the sym_name, and maybe the target. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c

 
172425734196_566660007103Jeff Garzik
These struct elements record info that is never needed Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c | 5 +---- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_gl

 
154927194433_586860007130malahal
I refreshed the blk layer timeout patch from Mike Christie to 2.6.23-rc8-mm1. Fixed couple of places where scsi_dispatch_cmd() wasnt stopping timers. Thanks, Malahal. - To unsubscribe from this list

 
154928064253_577660007635Salyzyn Mark
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:17:50 -0700 malahal@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: Mike Christies patches refreshed to 2.6.23-rc8-mm1. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Malahal