Re: [PATCH 14/18] scsi: remove __scsi_alloc_queue

2017-01-28 Thread h...@lst.de
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 05:58:02PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Since __scsi_init_queue() modifies data in the Scsi_Host structure, have you > considered to add the declaration for this function to ? > If you want to keep this declaration in please add a > direct include of that header file to

Re: [PATCH 15/18] scsi: allocate scsi_cmnd structures as part of struct request

2017-01-28 Thread h...@lst.de
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 06:39:46PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Why have the scsi_release_buffers() and scsi_put_command(cmd) calls been > moved up? I haven't found an explanation for this change in the patch > description. Because they reference the scsi_cmnd, which are now part of the request

Re: split scsi passthrough fields out of struct request V3

2017-01-28 Thread h...@lst.de
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 06:58:53PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Version 3 of the patch with title "block: split scsi_request out of > struct request" (commit 3c30af6ebe12) differs significantly from v2 > of that patch that has been posted on several mailing lists. E.g. v2 > moves __cmd[], cmd an

Re: split scsi passthrough fields out of struct request V2

2017-01-28 Thread h...@lst.de
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 09:27:53PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Have you considered to convert all block drivers to the new > approach and to get rid of request.special? If so, do you already > have plans to start working on this? I'm namely wondering wheter I > should start working on this myse

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Re: [PATCH 0/6] ncr5380: Miscellaneous minor patches

2017-01-28 Thread Ondrej Zary
On Monday 16 January 2017 00:50:57 Finn Thain wrote: > This series removes some unused code and related comments, > addresses the warnings generated by 'make W=1' and 'make C=1' > and fixes a theoretical bug in the bus reset method in atari_scsi. > > There's also a patch to add a missing error chec

RE: [PATCH v2 0/2] scsi: storvsc: Add support for FC lightweight host.

2017-01-28 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:52 AM > To: Cathy Avery > Cc: KY Srinivasan ; h...@infradead.org; Haiyang Zhang > ; j...@linux.vnet.ibm.com; > martin.peter...@oracle.com; dan.carpen...@oracle.com; > de...@lin

Re: [PATCH 0/6] ncr5380: Miscellaneous minor patches

2017-01-28 Thread Finn Thain
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Ondrej Zary wrote: > On Monday 16 January 2017 00:50:57 Finn Thain wrote: > > This series removes some unused code and related comments, addresses > > the warnings generated by 'make W=1' and 'make C=1' and fixes a > > theoretical bug in the bus reset method in atari_scsi.

[RFC PATCH] scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name registration crashes

2017-01-28 Thread Dan Williams
Warnings of the following form occur because scsi reuses a devt number while the block layer still has it referenced as the name of the bdi [1]: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 93 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80 sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/8:192' [..] Call

Re: [PATCH 1/2] qla2xxx: Fix a recently introduced memory leak

2017-01-28 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 15:36 +0100, h...@lst.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 03:47:20PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > = > > BUG kmalloc-16 (Not tainted): Redzone overwritten > > --