On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 21:21 -0500, Graham Knap wrote:
> Sure enough, the kernel now boots. I'll attach the "dmesg" output here.
> 
> Do you guys have a "final" patch in mind?
> 
> Let me know if there are other tests you'd like me to run. Now that I
> know how to do this, I should be able to turn around test results
> fairly quickly.

OK, try the attached.  If it works out, I'll soak it in -mm for a while
and then try to put it in as a bug fix for 2.6.15.

James

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c 
b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c
@@ -812,12 +812,10 @@ spi_dv_device_internal(struct scsi_devic
        if (!scsi_device_sync(sdev) && !scsi_device_dt(sdev))
                return;
 
-       /* see if the device has an echo buffer.  If it does we can
-        * do the SPI pattern write tests */
-
-       len = 0;
-       if (scsi_device_dt(sdev))
-               len = spi_dv_device_get_echo_buffer(sdev, buffer);
+       /* len == -1 is the signal that we need to ascertain the
+        * presence of an echo buffer before trying to use it.  len ==
+        * 0 means we don't have an echo buffer */
+       len = -1;
 
  retry:
 
@@ -840,11 +838,23 @@ spi_dv_device_internal(struct scsi_devic
                if (spi_min_period(starget) == 8)
                        DV_SET(pcomp_en, 1);
        }
+       /* Do the read only INQUIRY tests */
+       spi_dv_retrain(sdev, buffer, buffer + sdev->inquiry_len,
+                      spi_dv_device_compare_inquiry);
+       /* See if we actually managed to negotiate and sustain DT */
+       if (i->f->get_dt)
+               i->f->get_dt(starget);
+
+       /* see if the device has an echo buffer.  If it does we can do
+        * the SPI pattern write tests.  Because of some broken
+        * devices, we *only* try this on a device that has actually
+        * negotiated DT */
+
+       if (len == -1 && spi_dt(starget))
+               len = spi_dv_device_get_echo_buffer(sdev, buffer);
 
-       if (len == 0) {
+       if (len <= 0) {
                starget_printk(KERN_INFO, starget, "Domain Validation skipping 
write tests\n");
-               spi_dv_retrain(sdev, buffer, buffer + len,
-                              spi_dv_device_compare_inquiry);
                return;
        }
 




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