On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:10:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:53:54 -0500 > "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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...
We'd like to see it 2.6.23. It may help insulate me from lots of questions about where it is. :) But it's entirely up to you. mikem - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
