2007-10-04 16:21:16

by James Bottomley

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Subject: [GIT PATCH] critical megaraid bug fix for 2.6.23

This is a critical fix for the reported megaraid inability to boot:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/2/243

The patch is here:

master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git

And the description and diffstat:

commit d5e89385e92a77b2764d9eb8284808a7628cb2a8
Author: FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Oct 3 09:00:58 2007 +0900

[SCSI] megaraid_old: fix READ_CAPACITY

The bulk transfer mode got eleminated by
3f6270ef76f2ce5c134615a470685d6c2a66c07e. Unfortunately, this mode is
required for READ_CAPACITY commands on certain cards, so put it back
again. This fixes a boot failure regression reported by Burton
Windle.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>

megaraid.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

James