I have rediffed the patch against 2.6.13-rc5, done a couple of cosmetic
cleanups, and run some tests. Brian King has acknowledged that it fixes the
problems he has seen. Seems mature enough for inclusion into 2.6.14 (or
later)?
Nate's explanation of the changes:
I've attached patches against 2.6
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>>Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 4:08 PM
>>To: Dailey, Nate
>>Cc: Brian King; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
>>Subject: RE: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/st.c: add reference count
>>and related fixes
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Dailey, Nate wrote:
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 4:08 PM
> To: Dailey, Nate
> Cc: Brian King; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/st.c: add reference count
> and related fixes
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Dailey, Nate wrote:
>
> > I'll try porti
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Dailey, Nate wrote:
> I'll try porting my changes to a recent kernel, verify that the bugs I
> found are still bugs, and get back to you with a new patch.
>
> In the meantime, responses to your comments:
>
> - using a new kref in the scsi_tape structure: I've given this some
about this, though, and I can
change my last_SRpnt code.
Nate Dailey
> -Original Message-
> From: Kai Makisara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:12 AM
> To: Dailey, Nate
> Cc: Brian King; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] d
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Brian King wrote:
> Kai Makisara wrote:
> >>The primary change is adding a kref to the Scsi_Tape structure, to avoid
> >>an oops when the tape drive is removed while open. This includes
> >>scsi_tape_get/put routines and scsi_tape_release, and changes to st_open
> >>and st_rele
Kai Makisara wrote:
>>The primary change is adding a kref to the Scsi_Tape structure, to avoid
>>an oops when the tape drive is removed while open. This includes
>>scsi_tape_get/put routines and scsi_tape_release, and changes to st_open
>>and st_release. This is all based on the SCSI disk & CD refe
This is an area where st can be improved. I am happy to see that people
(probably) having resources to test the changes are working on this.
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Dailey, Nate wrote:
> These patches (against a 2.6.9 kernel, Redhat AS 4) for st add a
> reference count, and fix a few bugs I hit duri
Dailey, Nate wrote:
> These patches (against a 2.6.9 kernel, Redhat AS 4) for st add a
> reference count, and fix a few bugs I hit during testing (administrative
> removes and cable pulls with IO in progress).
>
> The primary change is adding a kref to the Scsi_Tape structure, to avoid
> an oops w
These patches (against a 2.6.9 kernel, Redhat AS 4) for st add a
reference count, and fix a few bugs I hit during testing (administrative
removes and cable pulls with IO in progress).
The primary change is adding a kref to the Scsi_Tape structure, to avoid
an oops when the tape drive is removed wh
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