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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:07:36 +0100
From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler@upb.de>
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To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
CC: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG?] GDTH driver not working after upgrade to 2.6.24
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> Yes the gdth driver passed an open hart surgery in kernel 2.6.24. The b=
ad thing
> about it is that all three of the Coders that did that did not have any=
 HW to work
> on. One of them is me. We did cry for tester for a long time but no one=
 came forward.

All i'd like to ask is WHY!?
WHY such a big open heart surgery?
OK, you have your reasons.

> Could you test patches for us? first thing would be to enable debug out=
put patch below.

The machine is still production. It will be replaced by a 64bit system=20
with an AACRAID card some time in the future. Then, i could maybe test=20
patches on the old machine. But unfortunatly, it's not my machine. It's=20
just administrated by me. And i don't know, what's exactly is the future =

of it.

> If you absolutely need a 2.6.24 kernel, + gdth in a production system y=
ou could
> checkout the 2.6.23 driver and compile. The old driver will work the sa=
me in 2.6.24.
> It will not however even compile in 2.6.25-rcx.

I see. Thanks for the hint. Would be an alternative. Actually, i don't=20
need 2.6.24 - but if something security related is fixed, then i'm not=20
able to move on to 2.6.24. And i'm using Gentoo. There's not really a=20
kernel maintained by the distribution.

> If any one wants to send me a card that uses the gdth driver, I will be=
 very happy
> to debug this card, and return it once I'm done.

I don't think, it's a seperate card, that i could send you. It's some=20
19" rack server with such a card on-board, i think.


So it don't see much opportunity for me to test patched and stuff :-(


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