Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1766011AbXLQVwm (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:52:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757029AbXLQVwc (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:52:32 -0500 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:49271 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753225AbXLQVwb (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:52:31 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc5: tape drive not responding From: James Bottomley To: Andrew Morton Cc: John Stoffel , fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Boaz Harrosh In-Reply-To: <20071217134344.3f024461.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <18277.52079.718004.969358@stoffel.org> <20071217112551H.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20071217031510.c3d500fd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <18278.55130.471797.398922@stoffel.org> <18278.58314.892734.490418@stoffel.org> <20071217134344.3f024461.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:52:28 -0600 Message-Id: <1197928348.3204.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 (2.12.2-2.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1213 Lines: 43 On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 13:43 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:02:02 -0500 > "John Stoffel" wrote: > > > > > Just to confirm, the propsed patch to st.c fixes the issue with > > 2.6.24-rc5 as well at 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 with access to my DLT tape > > drives. > > err, what patch to st.c? That's this one: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commit;h=acdd0b1c371b2fbb4b6110a51ba69cb0af9e6f45 > So it seems that 2.6.24 (and presumably 2.6.23?) need Not 2.6.23 .. the scatterlist changes causing the st problems are local to 2.6.24. > 1: Alan's "initio: fix conflict when loading driver" (currently stocuk > in git-scsi-misc) Yes, I'm moving this into scsi-rc-fixes > 2: Boaz's "initio: initio_build_scb() fix" (my name for it) And applying this ... although I'd still appreciate confirmation from someone that the initio driver works after this. > 3: The mystery st.c fix. > > yes? James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/