Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Dreier
> No, it does matter. Your suggestion doesn't work, because > /sys/module/scsi_mod/parameters/ belongs to the module code. To create > a new attribute there, you use the module_param() code -- and there's > no way to have code called when your parameter is changed. If I'm not misunderstandin

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:57:52AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > [ I appreciate you forked the thread and gave it a better subject name, > it would be better still if you could maintain the original CC list, > thanks. ] I removed the people I didn't think needed to be on the Cc list any more, sin

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 5/16/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Satyam Sharma wrote: >> > >semantics of it (read-only? read-write? write-only? > > Well, it _has_ to be write, don't really care if it's read-write or > write-only. I would still prefer read-write, but we can go ahead with > write-only too

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Satyam Sharma wrote: > >semantics of it (read-only? read-write? write-only? Well, it _has_ to be write, don't really care if it's read-write or write-only. I would still prefer read-write, but we can go ahead with write-only too. It doesn't really matter, does it? just to be devils advocate

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, [ I appreciate you forked the thread and gave it a better subject name, it would be better still if you could maintain the original CC list, thanks. ] On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: I've already suggested a sysfs attribute - or something equivalent - would be

[PATCH] SCSI: Let users disable SCSI_WAIT_SCAN to be built

2007-05-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 14 +++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.22-rc1/drivers/scsi/Kconfig === --- linux-2.6.22-rc1.orig/drivers/scs

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:37 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:57:25 -0400 > > > It might make sense to put it in lib ... however, I don't think many > > architectures have the problems we have ... specifically certain boxes > > can h

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread David Miller
From: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:57:25 -0400 > It might make sense to put it in lib ... however, I don't think many > architectures have the problems we have ... specifically certain boxes > can have >1 IOMMU, then you really have to know *which* iommu you're > p

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:30:50PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: > On 15/05/07 13:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >It's easy to suggest a sysfs attribute. What you've failed to do is > >suggest the pathname of the sysfs attribute, the contents of it, or the > >semantics of it (read-only? read-write? wr

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 12:57 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:54:16AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > Er ... I really hope not ... that's exactly how the parisc iommu > > platform code works ... and why I designed the generic dma mapping this > > way. The key thing par

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Simon Arlott
On 15/05/07 13:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: I've already suggested a sysfs attribute - or something equivalent - would be much better. It's just one function that a user might want to run multiple times (e.g. after adding scsi devices?)

Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

2007-05-15 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Henrique. Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007, Francesco Pretto wrote: >> Ubuntu [1] ang Gentoo [2] bugs opened. Sent a mail to Miquel van >> Smoorenburg, dev of sysvinit. > > For all Debian sysvinit issues, please send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (added to CC). > >

[PATCH] aacraid: Correct sa platform support. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMP kernel-2.6.21.1)

2007-05-15 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
As discussed in the bugzilla outlined below, we have an sa based (Mustang) RAID adapter on the system, a Dell PERC2/QC. Affected controllers are HP NetRAID, Adaptec AAC-364, Dell PERC2/QC or Adaptec 5400S. This problem coincides with the introduction of the adapter_comm and adapter_deliver platfor

Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: > I've already suggested a sysfs attribute - or something equivalent - would > be much better. It's just one function that a user might want to run multiple > times (e.g. after adding scsi devices?) - why should loading a module be used

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:54:16AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > Er ... I really hope not ... that's exactly how the parisc iommu > platform code works ... and why I designed the generic dma mapping this > way. The key thing parisc needed was the ability to walk up different > busses until it fo

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 10:01 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:39:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > > FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > >> > There are two patches for each driver, removing the non-use-sg code > > >> > and converting to use the accessors. > > ... > > > I merged

Re: why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module?

2007-05-15 Thread Simon Arlott
On Tue, May 15, 2007 01:41, Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 5/14/07, James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 17:53 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: >> > > I guess this is probably the behaviour that James wanted originally? >> >> No ... you're still not reading the explanation in t

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:39:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > >> > There are two patches for each driver, removing the non-use-sg code > >> > and converting to use the accessors. > ... > > I merged the two. And I finished cleaning up 35 drivers in total. > > > > git://