Re: About ARECA RAID driver for Linux i386/x86-64

2005-02-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:33:37PM +0800, erich wrote: Hi,Andrew Morton Thanks for your doing. ARECA Linux RAID driver need to support old linux kerenel version. There are a lot of NAS RAID STORAGE SYSTEM development worker still use it at old linux kernel. Maybe I need to released one

Re: About ARECA RAID driver for Linux i386/x86-64

2005-02-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:05:32AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: * needs to use list.h lists not open coded ones the only list uses I saw in a quick scan were for internal queueing which should go away. (see the tmscsim driver in 2.6 on what to return when the queue is full) * uses wrong

RE: [PATCH 3/3] MidLayer updates - extending scsi_target support

2005-02-06 Thread James . Smart
No - there was no discussion of adding scsi targets to linux (per your definition or otherwise). Since the Emulex driver tracks things by target (actually FC remote port) rather than luns, having the ability to have driver data space in the lun didn't help much. Yes, the driver data space could

Re: [PATCH 3/3] MidLayer updates - extending scsi_target support

2005-02-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:28:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the Emulex driver tracks things by target (actually FC remote port) rather than luns, having the ability to have driver data space in the lun didn't help much. Yes, the driver data space could be in the transport-specific

Re: [PATCH] Fix selection of command serial numbers and pids

2005-02-06 Thread Andi Kleen
[...] Willy pointed out a bogus hunk in the original patch that should not have been there. Retransmit with that removed. Also mark scsi_cmnd_serial inline. This patch fixes one of Christroph's fixme comments in the SCSI midlayer. The selection of the serial number and pid for commands was

Re: [PATCH] Fix selection of command serial numbers and pids

2005-02-06 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:41:23PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: This patch fixes one of Christroph's fixme comments in the SCSI midlayer. If we're going to start fixing problems that Christoph noted, this one seems obvious to me: The static device_request_lock doesn't protect anything; remove it.

Re: [PATCH] qla1280.c /proc/scsi/qla1280/x reads garbage

2005-02-06 Thread Takayoshi Kochi
Hi, From: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PATCH] qla1280.c /proc/scsi/qla1280/x reads garbage Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:27:30 + In 2.6.11-rc3, reading /proc/scsi/qla1280/0 sometimes spits garbage. This is because in qla1280_proc_info() the returned pointer to the