Re: [PATCH] sd: disentangle barriers in SCSI

2007-08-04 Thread Tejun Heo
James Bottomley wrote: > Our current implementation has a generic set of barrier functions that > go through the SCSI driver model. Realistically, this is unnecessary, > because the only device that can use barriers (sd) can set the flush > functions up at probe or revalidate time. This patch pul

[PATCH update] firewire: fw-sbp2: add support for multiple logical units per target

2007-08-04 Thread Stefan Richter
Fixes "New firewire stack only recognizing half of a chain of drives", https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242254 Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This replaces the patches "firewire: remove unused macros" "firewire: fw-sbp2: use one Scsi_Host for all targe

[PATCH] move ULD attachment into the prep function

2007-08-04 Thread James Bottomley
One of the intents of the block prep function was to allow ULDs to use it for preprocessing. The original SCSI model was to have a single prep function and add a pointer indirect filter to build the necessary commands. This patch reverses that, does away with the init_command field of the scsi_dr

[GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-04 Thread James Bottomley
This is mainly bug fixes ... there's one or two features completions that have been delayed pending ack and review to do with bsg (headers and passthrough) but these are really required to complete already upstream code. The patch is available here: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jej

Re: [PATCH][RESEND] Fix a potential NULL pointer deref in the aic7xxx, ahc_print_register() function

2007-08-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 20:30 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > (resend of patch previously submitted on 28-Jul-2007 23:06) > > > Ehlo, > > The Coverity checker noticed that we have a potential NULL pointer > deref in drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c::ahc_print_register(). > This patch handles it by