Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:24:46 -0700
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: "Yang, Bo" <Bo.Yang@lsi.com>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Patro, Sumant" <Sumant.Patro@lsi.com>,
       "Kolli, Neela" <Neela.Kolli@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: megaraid_sas - Fix random failure of DCDB cmds with sense info
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:17:33AM -0700, Yang, Bo wrote:
> James,
> 
> What is the status for this patch?  We need to submit more patches based
> on the acceptance of this patch.

I've NAKed it.  You need to use compat_ioctl.  That way your code will
work even if you run a 32-bit x86 application on ia64 (or a 64-bit
application on x86).

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