Re: [PATCH] aacraid: fails to initialize after a kexec operation

2007-04-30 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:21:35AM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > The system BIOS sets up the card's PCI configuration and there is code > in the kernel that is capable of picking up some of the BIOS' > information from the BIOS Data Space (not sure if it is actively > collected in your configuratio

Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-04-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Apr 29 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 18:48 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > From: Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request > > > Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:33:28 +0300 > > > > > >> diff

[PATCH 06/36] Use menuconfig objects II - fusion

2007-04-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig | 14 +- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 dele

[PATCH 27/36] Use menuconfig objects II - SCSI

2007-04-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu", so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once instead of having to disable each option separately. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/Kconfig|8 ++-- drivers/

Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-04-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Benny Halevy wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 29 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 18:48 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > >>> FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > From: Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional

Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-04-30 Thread Benny Halevy
Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29 2007, James Bottomley wrote: >> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 18:48 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>> FUJITA Tomonori wrote: From: Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:33:28 +0300 >

Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-04-30 Thread Mark Lord
Jens Axboe wrote: So basically just add a struct request pointer, so you can do rq = rq->next_rq or something for the next data phase. I bet this would be a LOT less invasive as well, and we can get by with a few helpers to support it. Hey, I want a way to issue those (linked requests) from us

Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-04-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > >So basically just add a struct request pointer, so you can do rq = > >rq->next_rq or something for the next data phase. I bet this would be a > >LOT less invasive as well, and we can get by with a few helpers to > >support it. > > He

Re: [PATCH] deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver

2007-04-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Now that we have the much better esp_scsi driver and low level drivers > are easy to port over deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver. > > I've Cc'ed the m68k and mips lists because all but one bus glues are > for these platforms. Chances stand bad for t

RE: [PATCH] aacraid: fails to initialize after a kexec operation

2007-04-30 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
Foreign arrays are arrays configured on another adapter then moved over to the current host adapter. I do not know why this may be the case in your situation, but it had the smell of behaving like a foreign array and thus my suggestion. We use commit=1 for all situations where the importation of an

Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-04-30 Thread Bob Tracy
Apologies to all concerned for an unfortunate delay in resolving this. I chose "unwisely" when I picked a popular experimental distro's 2.6.20 kernel source as a base for my troubleshooting efforts. The resulting kernel panics when it tries to load the initial ramdisk, and I don't have the patienc

[PATCH] fill in scsi_host_template module owner

2007-04-30 Thread Olaf Kirch
I recently ran into an oops that happens because you can shut down all of iSCSI even though you still have iSCSI targets mounted. It turned out that iscsi's scsi_host_template missed a THIS_MODULE, so reference counting wasn't done properly. Brief inspection showed that this seems to be a rather wi

Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-04-30 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Benny Halevy wrote: >> Jens Axboe wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 29 2007, James Bottomley wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 18:48 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > FUJITA Tomonori wrote: >> From: Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [PATCH 4/4] bidi s

Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-04-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Benny Halevy wrote: > >> Jens Axboe wrote: > >>> On Sun, Apr 29 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 18:48 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > >> From: Boaz Harr

Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-04-30 Thread Benny Halevy
Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Douglas Gilbert wrote: >> Jens Axboe wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Benny Halevy wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29 2007, James Bottomley wrote: >> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 18:48 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>> FUJITA Tomonori wrote: >>>

Re: [PATCH] fill in scsi_host_template module owner

2007-04-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Olaf Kirch wrote: > I recently ran into an oops that happens because you > can shut down all of iSCSI even though you still have > iSCSI targets mounted. It turned out that iscsi's > scsi_host_template missed a THIS_MODULE, so > reference counting wasn't do

[GIT PATCH] SCSI updates for 2.6.21

2007-04-30 Thread James Bottomley
This is an intermediate flush of my queue. Surprisingly I got quite a lot of updates after 2.6.21 went public, which I'll try to send in the next week (before the merge window closes). The update is available here: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git The short cha

Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-04-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Apr 27 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > > sgpnt[0:1] page c1ee5af0/0x1ee5af0 length 32 > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Buffer at physical address > 16 Mb used for > > aha1542 > > > > As before, no problems using the sda hard disk (which is the boot drive): > > everything works reliably unti

Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-04-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:32:45PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > It's due to the crappy ->generic_packet() ioctl stuff, it bypasses the > block layer. So that needs to be converted to use block pc requests and > the block layer interface, then things will just work. > > Christoph had a sort-of ready

Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-04-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:32:45PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > It's due to the crappy ->generic_packet() ioctl stuff, it bypasses the > > block layer. So that needs to be converted to use block pc requests and > > the block layer interface, then thin

Re: SAVE_DATA / RESTORE_POINTERS message confusion

2007-04-30 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, David Miller wrote: > From: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:18:19 -0500 > > > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 22:56 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > 2. are they ever sent apart from when accompanying the DISCONNECT / > > > RESELECT? > > > > I'

Re: SAVE_DATA / RESTORE_POINTERS message confusion

2007-04-30 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 20:15 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Ok, looking through t10 docs there seem to be quite a few functions for > the SAVE DATA POINTERS / MODIFY DATA POINTER / RESTORE POINTERS (btw, even > POINTER vs. POINTERS use was inconsistent between the spi5r06, s2-r10l, > ana a

Re: SAVE_DATA / RESTORE_POINTERS message confusion

2007-04-30 Thread David Miller
From: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:24:07 -0500 > On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 20:15 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Ok, looking through t10 docs there seem to be quite a few functions for > > the SAVE DATA POINTERS / MODIFY DATA POINTER / RESTORE POINTERS (btw, e

Re: SAVE_DATA / RESTORE_POINTERS message confusion

2007-04-30 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:46 -0700, David Miller wrote: > The new ESP driver in esp_scsi.c is a good example of doing at least > SAVE and RESTORE pointer management properly. I plan to add the > necessary MODIFY bits soon. > > I think it's important to get this right because a target can use > thi

Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-04-30 Thread Bob Tracy
rct wrote: > Apologies to all concerned for an unfortunate delay in resolving this. > (...) > I'll go retrieve a more conservatively-configured source tree (closer to > what DSL-N uses) and start over... Success with the Debian 2.6.18-4-486 build, which is known to work almost as well on the test

[RFC] lpfc 8.2.0 : Refactoring and addition of NPIV support

2007-04-30 Thread James Smart
All, For the past several months, Emulex has been updating our driver to support the N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV). We have reached a maturity point where we would like to move the NPIV support into our upstream driver. This is a request to review the modifications we have made for NPIV. NPIV