Re: [ANNOUNCE] Open-FCoE - Fibre Channel over Ethernet Project

2007-11-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
I just did a very quick glance over the tree. Some extremly highlevel comments to start with before actually starting the source review: - why do you need your own libcrc? lib/crc32.c has a crc32_le - libsa should go. Much of it is just wrappers of kernel functions that should be used dir

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:47:19 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:59:00 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > > > > (cc linux-scsi, for sym53c8xx) > > > >> Soft lockup is detected while bootup with 2.

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected

2007-11-27 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:59:00 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > > (cc linux-scsi, for sym53c8xx) > >> Soft lockup is detected while bootup with 2.6.24-rc3-git2 on powerbox > > I assume this is a post-2.6.23 regression? > >> BUG: soft lockup - CP

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:59:00 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, (cc linux-scsi, for sym53c8xx) > Soft lockup is detected while bootup with 2.6.24-rc3-git2 on powerbox I assume this is a post-2.6.23 regression? > BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 11s! [insmod:375] > NIP: c

Re: [PATCH v3 2/2][BNX2]: Add iSCSI support to BNX2 devices.

2007-11-27 Thread Anil Veerabhadrappa
> >> Which ones were they exactly? I think JamesB wanted only common > >> transport values in the transport class. If it is driver specific then > >> it should go on the host or target or device with the scsi_host_template > >> attrs. > >> > > > > It's a chicken & egg issue to put "port mapper

RE: Open-FCoE on linux-scsi

2007-11-27 Thread Love, Robert W
>On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:40:05 -0800 >"Love, Robert W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello SCSI mailing list, >> >> I'd just like to introduce ourselves a bit before we get >> started. My name is Robert Love and I'm joined by a team of engineers >> including Vasu Dev, Chris Leech and Yi Zou.

Re: Open-FCoE on linux-scsi

2007-11-27 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:40:05 -0800 "Love, Robert W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello SCSI mailing list, > > I'd just like to introduce ourselves a bit before we get > started. My name is Robert Love and I'm joined by a team of engineers > including Vasu Dev, Chris Leech and Yi Zou. We are

Open-FCoE on linux-scsi

2007-11-27 Thread Love, Robert W
Hello SCSI mailing list, I'd just like to introduce ourselves a bit before we get started. My name is Robert Love and I'm joined by a team of engineers including Vasu Dev, Chris Leech and Yi Zou. We are committed to maintaining the Open-FCoE project. Aside from Intel engineers we expect en

Re: [PATCH] SGIWD93: use cached memory access to make driver work on IP28

2007-11-27 Thread Thomas Bogendoerfer
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:00:39AM +0100, peter fuerst wrote: > unlike with sgiseeq.c, in sgiwd93.c there's no need to bloat the hpc_chunk > and only a single dma_cache_sync-call is necessary in fill_hpc_entries and > init_hpc_chain respectively. funny I realized that a couple of minutes ago. A ke

Re: [PATCH] SGIWD93: use cached memory access to make driver work on IP28

2007-11-27 Thread peter fuerst
Hello Thomas, unlike with sgiseeq.c, in sgiwd93.c there's no need to bloat the hpc_chunk and only a single dma_cache_sync-call is necessary in fill_hpc_entries and init_hpc_chain respectively. kind regards peter On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:41:

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ide-scsi: use print_hex_dump from

2007-11-27 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:16:13 +0800 Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > these utilities implemented in lib/hexdump.c are more handy, please use > > > this. > > > > >

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ide-scsi: use print_hex_dump from

2007-11-27 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:16:13 +0800 Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > these utilities implemented in lib/hexdump.c are more handy, please use > > this. > > > > ... > > > > --- a/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c > > +++ b/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ide-scsi: use print_hex_dump from

2007-11-27 Thread Joe Perches
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 01:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Either way, perhaps a simple little front-end to print_hex_dump() is called > for. Perhaps an even simpler generic version of what's now used in crypto/tcrypt.c: void print_cont_hex_dump_bytes(const void *buf, size_t len) { print_h

[ANNOUNCE] Open-FCoE - Fibre Channel over Ethernet Project

2007-11-27 Thread Love, Robert W
Hello Linux Community, I'd like to introduce a new Open Source project named Open-FCoE. FCoE is the acronym for Fibre Channel over Ethernet, which is the encapsulation of Fibre Channel frames within Ethernet packets. FCoE will allow systems with an Ethernet adapter and a Fibre Channel Forwarde

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9462] New: Adaptec AHA-7850 with MOD drive: Hard lockup with new Adaptec driver

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Morton
(switched to email - please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface) On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:11:02 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9462 > >Summary: Adaptec AHA-7850 with MOD drive: Hard lockup with new >

Re: Recent sym53c8xx patches

2007-11-27 Thread Tony Battersby
Randy Dunlap wrote: > Is Matthew assisting James on SCSI merges now? > > Matthew is the maintainer of sym53c8xx. I figured my patches weren't getting merged since he hadn't given the ok yet. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message

Re: Recent sym53c8xx patches

2007-11-27 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:51:56 -0500 Tony Battersby wrote: > Hello, > > I am sending this message to check up on the merge status of my recent > sym53c8xx patches to make sure they aren't forgotten. Matthew Wilcox, > could you give an ack/nak for these merge requests? Also, please let me > know i

Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: megaraid_sas - Fix random failure of DCDB cmds with sense info

2007-11-27 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:19:09AM -0700, Yang, Bo wrote: > Matthew, > > Thanks for your review. > > We have a 32 bit application(s) (megaraid utility) that is used in both > x86 and x86_64. > For ia64, the application is built in ia64 environment. Are you saying the application is built 32-bit

RE: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: megaraid_sas - Fix random failure of DCDB cmds with sense info

2007-11-27 Thread Yang, Bo
Matthew, Thanks for your review. We have a 32 bit application(s) (megaraid utility) that is used in both x86 and x86_64. For ia64, the application is built in ia64 environment. The sense_ptr picked up from the ioc->frame.raw is a 32-bit value from the application. When we make it "unsigned long*

Recent sym53c8xx patches

2007-11-27 Thread Tony Battersby
Hello, I am sending this message to check up on the merge status of my recent sym53c8xx patches to make sure they aren't forgotten. Matthew Wilcox, could you give an ack/nak for these merge requests? Also, please let me know if I need to do anything else (such as resending later) to make sure th

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ide-scsi: use print_hex_dump from

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:16:13 +0800 Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > these utilities implemented in lib/hexdump.c are more handy, please use this. > > ... > > --- a/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c > @@ -242,16 +242,6 @@ static void idescsi_output_buffers (ide_drive_

Re: [PATCH] SGIWD93: use cached memory access to make driver work on IP28

2007-11-27 Thread Thomas Bogendoerfer
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:28:14AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > struct hpc_chunk { > > struct hpc_dma_desc desc; > > - u32 _padding; /* align to quadword boundary */ > > + u32 _padding[128/4 - 3];/* align to biggest cache line size */ > ^ > (1

Re: [PATCH] SGIWD93: use cached memory access to make driver work on IP28

2007-11-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > --- a/drivers/scsi/sgiwd93.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/sgiwd93.c > @@ -33,19 +33,27 @@ > > struct ip22_hostdata { > struct WD33C93_hostdata wh; > - struct hpc_data { > - dma_addr_t dma; > - void*cpu;