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From:
Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
To: Mike Miller (OS Dev) <mikem@...>
Cc: <jens.axboe@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-scsi@...>, <hch@...>, <james.bottomley@...>
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Re: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: fix error reporting for SG_IO
Date: Friday, August 24, 2007 - 8:10 pm
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:53:54 -0500 "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> wrote:
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> This fixes a problem with the way cciss was filling out the "errors" > field of the request structure upon completion of requests. > Previously, it just put a 1 or a 0 in there and used the negation > of this as the uptodate parameter to one of the functions in the > block layer, being a block device. For the SG_IO ioctl, this was not > sufficient, and we noticed that, for example, sg_turs from sg3_utils > did not correctly detect problems due to cciss having set rq->errors > incorrectly.
Do we think this problem is sufficiently serious to merit merging this (largeish) patch into 2.6.23? I'm thinking "no", but that might be wrong... -
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[PATCH 1/1] cciss: fix error reporting for SG_IO
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