James, Thanks for the reply. We will resubmit the patch to rollback it to our original implementation.
Regards. Bo Yang -----Original Message----- From: James Bottomley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:36 AM To: Yang, Bo Cc: Matthew Wilcox; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Patro, Sumant; Kolli, Neela Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: megaraid_sas - Fix random failure of DCDBcmds with sense info On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 09:17 -0700, Yang, Bo wrote: > James, > > What is the status for this patch? We need to submit more patches > based on the acceptance of this patch. OK, read the thread; Matthew is right. What you propose would pretty much destroy compat ioctl handling within the driver. You need a compat handler for MEGASAS_IOC_FW. With your current patch you'd get a failure both from a 64 bit binary running on x86-64 and if someone ran the x86 binary on ia64. The driver already uses the compat infrastructure, it shouldn't be too hard to add this in the correct manner. James -- 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/
