Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-05-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Bob Tracy wrote: > 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

Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Tracy
Jens Axboe wrote: > Try Alan's patch, it should fix it. As mentioned earlier in this thread, > the real fix is to get rid of the cgc stuff and inject into the block > layer from cdrom.c. But Alan's patch should work-around the issue for > now. Trying that patch is the next thing on my plate. For

Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> That's as close as it gets without redoing everything from scratch. > I'll give Alan's and James' patches a go within the next 13 hours. > > (Alan: what *else* would you name a variable associated with a bounce > buffer besides Zebedee? Thanks for the occasion to smile...) The one I sent has a

Re: libata /dev/scd0 problem: mount after burn fails without eject

2007-05-01 Thread Mark Lord
Forwarding to linux-scsi and linux-ide mailing lists. Frank van Maarseveen wrote: Tested on 2.6.20.6 and 2.6.21.1 I decided to swich from the old IDE drivers to libata and now there seems to be a little but annoying problem: cannot mount an ISO image after burning it. May 1 14:32:55 kernel: a

Re: libata /dev/scd0 problem: mount after burn fails without eject

2007-05-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 01/05/07, Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forwarding to linux-scsi and linux-ide mailing lists. Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > Tested on 2.6.20.6 and 2.6.21.1 > > I decided to swich from the old IDE drivers to libata and now there > seems to be a little but annoying problem: cannot mount

[PATCH] aacraid: superfluous adapter reset for IBM 8 series ServeRAID controllers

2007-05-01 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
The kexec patch introduced a superfluous (and otherwise inert) reset of some adapters. The register can have a hardware default value that has zeros for the undefined interrupts. This patch refines the test of the interrupt enable register to focus on only the interrupts that affect the driver in o

Re: Kernel crash with AIC94xx (one step forward, hope it's lucky)

2007-05-01 Thread Darrick J. Wong
Constantin Teodorescu wrote: > 03:02:15 kernel: [ cut here ] > 03:02:15 kernel: kernel BUG at drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_hwi.h:354! On the odd chance you still have this controller (and have the time to test out patches), would you mind applying this patch: http://sweag

Re: [PATCH] aacraid: superfluous adapter reset for IBM 8 series ServeRAID controllers

2007-05-01 Thread Darrick J. Wong
Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > The kexec patch introduced a superfluous (and otherwise inert) reset of > some adapters. The register can have a hardware default value that has > zeros for the undefined interrupts. This patch refines the test of the > interrupt enable register to focus on only the interrupt

[PATCH] drivers/scsi/pci2000.h: Remove unused file

2007-05-01 Thread Richard Knutsson
Remove the unused header drivers/scsi/pci2000.h Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 'grep -nr "pci2000"' on the whole tree results only in a reference to pci2000.h Diffed against Linus' git-tree. diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pci2000.h b/drivers/scsi/pci2000.h deleted file mode 1

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/pci2000.h: Remove unused file

2007-05-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Remove the unused header drivers/scsi/pci2000.h i have the same patch in my pending patch directory, dated march 10, so i know i submitted it, but i have no idea whatever happened to it. rday -- ==

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

2007-05-01 Thread Boaz Harrosh
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: >> I'm still not really convinced about this approach. The primary job of >> the block

Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Tracy
Alan Cox wrote: > The one I sent has a memory leak but it won't matter for basic testing. > Or you can change the final bit to > > > scsi_normalize_sense((char *)sense, sizeof(*sense), &sshdr); > > if (zebedee != cgc->buffer) { > if (cgc->data_direction ==

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/pci2000.h: Remove unused file

2007-05-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:16 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Richard Knutsson wrote: > > > Remove the unused header drivers/scsi/pci2000.h > > i have the same patch in my pending patch directory, dated march 10, > so i know i submitted it, but i have no idea whatever happened

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

2007-05-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 01 2007, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > Please consider the attached proposal. It is a complete block-level bidi > implementation that is, I hope, a middle ground which will keep everyone > happy (including Christoph). It is both quite small and not invasive, > yet has a full bidi API that is ea

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

2007-05-01 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:57:20 +0200 > On Tue, May 01 2007, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > Please consider the attached proposal. It is a complete block-level bidi > > implementation that is, I hope, a middl

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/pci2000.h: Remove unused file

2007-05-01 Thread Richard Knutsson
James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:16 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2007, Richard Knutsson wrote: Remove the unused header drivers/scsi/pci2000.h i have the same patch in my pending patch directory, dated march 10, so i know i submitted it, but i hav

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

2007-05-01 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:11:57 +0200 > 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 <

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

2007-05-01 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:11:03AM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > 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 sug