Re: [PATCH] Convert i2o to compat_ioctl

2005-04-01 Thread Markus Lidel
Hello, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Markus, is this patch actually okay? I just talked to Andi about the ioctl32 issues and he told me about this patch. OK, i don't own a 64-bit system, so i couldn't test it out :-( The only thing i would change is rename compat_i2o_cfg_ioctl() into

RE: [Fwd: New driver aacraid-1.1.5.2391 for kernels 2.4.x problem.]

2005-04-01 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
A recent patch to linit.c: error = pci_register_driver(aac_pci_driver); -if (error) +if (error 0) return error; Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn -Original Message- From: Konstantin Khorenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 5:34

Re: Symbios PCI error recovery [Was: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ppc64: EEH + SCSI recovery (IPR only)]

2005-04-01 Thread Brian King
Grant Grundler wrote: You want everything moved back to the queued state or failed (flush pending IO so upper layers can retry if they want). Upper layer is the linux block device; my understanding is that it does not retry, nor do the filesystems above that. Passing errors upwards seems to be

Re: Dell 2850 build in (LSI) PERC4/Di 2.6 kernel driver.

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:11:20PM +0200, Paul Veldema wrote: Hello developers, For the last two months I've been strugling with a driver problem. Our company bought two Dell PowerEdge 2850's to try our production kernel version 2.6.8 (debian sarge) on since the 2650 are no longer sold.

RE: How to find which (physical) SCSI HBA corresponds to which ho st n umber?

2005-04-01 Thread Bryan Henderson
proc/scsi/hba_name/host_number. This proc entry is made AFTER the device is registered with SCSI mid-level driver (scsi_mod). This proc entry is not related to a device. It's the entry that describes the HBA, and it gets created as part of registering the HBA (host). after I add a SCSI

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 01/13] scsi: don't use blk_insert_request() for requeueing

2005-04-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 14:01 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Well, REQ_SPECIAL is the signal to the mid-layer that we've allocated the resources necessary to process the command, so in practice it will be turned on for every requeue request (because we set it when the command is prepared),

RE: How to find which (physical) SCSI HBA corresponds to which ho st number?

2005-04-01 Thread Guy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-scsi- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Henderson Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 12:47 PM To: Rajat Jain, Noida Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Rajat Jain, Noida Subject: RE: How to find which (physical) SCSI HBA

[ANNOUNCE] iscsi-initiator-core 1.6.2.0-rc1 for 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-01 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Greetings all, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/nab/iscsi-initiator-core/iscsi-initiator-core-1.6.2.0-rc1-2.6.12-rc1.patch.bz2 A few minor fixes in this release, with the main feature addition being support for persistent connection/session parameters as defined within

[ANNOUNCE] iscsi-initiator-core-tools v2.3 + HOWTO

2005-04-01 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Greetings all, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/storage/iscsi/iscsi-initiator-core-tools-2.3.tar.bz2 A few minor fixes related to the scripts have been commmited since v2.2. The most important addition is v1.0 of the HOWTO that is include in the top directory of this tarball, as well as

RE: How to find which (physical) SCSI HBA corresponds to which ho st n umber?

2005-04-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 09:47 -0800, Bryan Henderson wrote: If you and Linux could identify the host in common terms, you wouldn't have to do this. But the question is open as to in what terms you personally identify the host to which you attached the device. Is it the controller to the

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 01/13] scsi: don't use blk_insert_request() for requeueing

2005-04-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Greetings, James. On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:09:48PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 14:01 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Well, REQ_SPECIAL is the signal to the mid-layer that we've allocated the resources necessary to process the command, so in practice it will be turned

Question about scsi_device_online() usage in mptscsih

2005-04-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Eric. Hello, James. I've been working on new SCSI state model and was checking on scsi_device_online() users. As the state model is going to change, I need to audit device state usages in lldd's and I'm having difficult time understanding why scsi_device_online() is used in mptscsih.