From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Harris, Fred" <fred.harris@hp.com>
Subject: Re: cciss updates for 2.4.22-pre6
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:53:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030718065305.GU833@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4CFB69C345C394284E4B78B876C1CF104052A8B@cceexc23.americas.cpqcorp.net>
On Thu, Jul 17 2003, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> Here's another round of patches for the HP cciss driver in the attached tarball. These patches are intended for inclusion in the 2.4.22 kernel. This tarball contains 3 patches that should be applied in this order:
> 1. cciss_2447_author_change.patch
> 2. cciss_2447_shirq_fix2.patch
> 3. cciss_2447_lock_fix.patch
> The first patch is a requirement from our legal types & management, the other 2 are bug fixes.
> Full comments & desciptions are in the patch files.
>
> There will be more patches in the next few days. They will include:
> 1. Failover support for multipath environments.
> 2. devfs support.
> 3. Support for more than 8 controllers.
>
> Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
The shirq patch looks a bit suspect, don't you need at least a barrier
there? Also I'm curious what the problems are wrt the lock_fix?
--
Jens Axboe
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2003-07-17 20:43 cciss updates for 2.4.22-pre6 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2003-07-18 6:53 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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