Hello, I've just uploaded a new release of the packet writing patch, this time against the 2.4.0-test10 kernel. The bugs fixes that I've actually cared/remembered to write down are: - (scsi) use implicit segment recounting for all hba's - fix speed setting, was consistenly off on most drives - only print capacity when opening for write - fix off-by-two error in getting/setting write+read speed (affected reporting as well as actual speed used) - possible to enable write caching on drive - do ioctl marshalling on sparc64 from Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - avoid unaligned access on flags, should have been unsigned long of course - fixed missed wakeup in kpacketd - b_dev error (two places) - fix buffer head b_count bugs - fix hole merge bug, where tail could be added twice - fsync and invalidate buffers on close - check hash table for buffers first before using our own - add read-ahead - fixed several list races - fix proc reporting for more than one device - change to O_CREAT for creating devices - added media_change hook - added free buffers config option - pkt_lock_tray fails on failed open (and oopses), remove it. unlock is done explicitly in pkt_remove dev anyway. - added proper elevator insertion (should probably be part of elevator.c) - moved kernel thread info to private device, spawn one for each writer - added separate buffer list for dirty packet buffers - fixed nasty data corruption bug - remember to account request even when we don't gather data for it - add ioctl to force wakeup of kernel thread (for debug) - fixed packet size setting bug on zero detected - changed a lot of the proc reporting to be more readable to "humans" - set full speed for read-only opens People wanting to give it a go, should also remember to update their UDF cvs tree (CDRW branch) and install new cdrwtool and pktsetup binaries. Interoperability with DirectCD has been tested, and that seems to work. Bugs / success stories (yeah right) should be repoted to the packet-writing list. *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/packet/packet-0.0.2d.diff.bz2 -- * Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
