1. To support instantaneous report for SCSI device existing by periodic
polling
2. In arcmsr_iop_xfer(), inform AP of F/W's deadlock state to prevent
endless waiting
3. To block the coming SCSI command while the driver is handling bus reset
4. To support HW reset in bus reset error handler
Signed-off-by: Nick Cheng< nick.cheng@areca.com.tw >
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:24:19 +0800

Lots of problems here.

- Two of the patches had the same title ("SCSI: Support several
  features in arcmsr driver").  Please ensure that each patch has a
  unique and well-chosen title.

- application/octet-stream attachments are hard for people to read
  in-line in mail clients.  Please at least use text/plain MIME type if
  possible.

- The patches aren't in `patch -p1' form.  You had

	--- arcmsr/arcmsr_attr.c
	+++ arcmsr.1.20.00.15-81103/arcmsr_attr.c

  which cannot be applied from the top-level of the kernel tree.  It
  should have been

	--- a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_attr.c
	+++ a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_attr.c

  or similar.

I got all that fixed up, but when applying the second patch (using
2.6.34-rc4) I encountered a large number of patch rejects and gave up.

So please fix all that up and resend.  Perhaps you could use
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt which automates all this.

Also, please run scripts/checkpatch.pl across the patches - it reports
rather a lot of minor issues which you might choose to address.

Thanks.
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