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[PATCH] Add missing completion to scsi_complete_async_scans()

2006-12-07 Thread Matthew Wilcox
If either scsi_complete_async_scans() is called a second time before the first call has finished, or a host scan is started while scsi_complete_async_scans() is still sleeping, it would fail to wake up the other task, which would sleep forever. I've changed the kernel-doc to make it clear that scs

Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table

2006-12-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:14 -0800, Luben Tuikov wrote: > It is. If good_bytes=0 then nothing is up to date and uptodate should > be set to 0. That's not a correct assumption. Zero transfer commands, like TEST UNIT READY are perfectly happy to complete successfully with good_bytes == 0. > Look a

Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table

2006-12-07 Thread Luben Tuikov
--- James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 12:24 -0800, Luben Tuikov wrote: > > NEEDS_RETRY _does_ terminate, after it exhausts the retries. But since > > by the ASC value we know that no amount of retries is going to work, > > this chunk of the patch resolves it quicke

Re: [PATCH v2] libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Gilbert
James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 15:32 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: >> The Quantum GoVault SATAPI removable disk device returns ATA_ERR in >> response to a REPORT LUNS packet. If this happens to an ATAPI device >> that is attached to a SAS controller (this is the case with sas_ata),

Re: [Bug 7026] CD/DVD burning with USB writer doesn't work

2006-12-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Mike Christie wrote: > > > > > Alternatively, if we do start not checking values like max sectors and > > > send requests down to the drivers, the block layer mapping functions can > > > b

Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table

2006-12-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 12:24 -0800, Luben Tuikov wrote: > NEEDS_RETRY _does_ terminate, after it exhausts the retries. But since > by the ASC value we know that no amount of retries is going to work, > this chunk of the patch resolves it quicker, i.e. eliminates the > "NEEDS_RETRY" pointless retrie

Re: [PATCH v2] libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices

2006-12-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 15:32 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > The Quantum GoVault SATAPI removable disk device returns ATA_ERR in > response to a REPORT LUNS packet. If this happens to an ATAPI device > that is attached to a SAS controller (this is the case with sas_ata), > the device does not load

Re: lsscsi version 0.19 beta

2006-12-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:50 -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > - cope with dropping of 'generic' symlink post lk 2.6.16 This one was supposed to be because you already have the class link: generic@ and scsi_generic:sg0@ So the necessary kernel changes (apart from the generic link removal) are a

Re: [mptscsi] endless Domain Validation loop with external RAID enclosure

2006-12-07 Thread Etienne . Vogt
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble getting an external Brownie BR8600 SCSItoIDE RAID enclosure to work on our new HP Proliant ML350 file server. The SCSI controller used is the integrated HP LSI based MPT SCSI controller : With linux kernel 2.6.18.1 (official ke

Re: lsscsi version 0.19 beta

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Gilbert
James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 01:10 -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: >> The change proposed by James Bottomley that prompted >> the beta has not materialized. > > You'll have to remind me: which change was this? James, Yes, I'm fuzzy on the details as well. Here is part of the lssc

Re: lsscsi version 0.19 beta

2006-12-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 01:10 -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > The change proposed by James Bottomley that prompted > the beta has not materialized. You'll have to remind me: which change was this? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a mess

Re: [PATCH v2] libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Darrick J. Wong wrote: >> The Quantum GoVault SATAPI removable disk device returns ATA_ERR in >> response to a REPORT LUNS packet. If this happens to an ATAPI device >> that is attached to a SAS controller (this is the case with sas_ata), >> the device does not load because SC

Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface

2006-12-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 07 2006, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:57:56 +0100 > > > On Thu, Dec 07 2006, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI G

Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface

2006-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:57:56 +0100 > On Thu, Dec 07 2006, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface > > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:30

Re: [PATCH v2] libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices

2006-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Darrick J. Wong wrote: The Quantum GoVault SATAPI removable disk device returns ATA_ERR in response to a REPORT LUNS packet. If this happens to an ATAPI device that is attached to a SAS controller (this is the case with sas_ata), the device does not load because SCSI won't touch a "SCSI device"

Re: [Bug 7026] CD/DVD burning with USB writer doesn't work

2006-12-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Mike Christie wrote: > > > Alternatively, if we do start not checking values like max sectors and > > send requests down to the drivers, the block layer mapping functions can > > be modified to not check certain values and LLDs/scsi-ml ca

Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface

2006-12-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 07 2006, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:30:20 +0100 > > > On Thu, Dec 07 2006, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI G

Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface

2006-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:30:20 +0100 > On Thu, Dec 07 2006, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface > > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:06

Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface

2006-12-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 07 2006, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:06:59 +0100 > > > On Thu, Dec 07 2006, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI G

Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface

2006-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:06:59 +0100 > On Thu, Dec 07 2006, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface > > Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 16:31

Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface

2006-12-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 07 2006, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface > Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 16:31:48 +0100 > > > On Tue, Nov 07 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Douglas Gilbert wrote: > > > >I was asked to put together a proposal in

Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface

2006-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 16:31:48 +0100 > On Tue, Nov 07 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Douglas Gilbert wrote: > > >I was asked to put together a proposal in May this > > >year for a new SCSI Generic interface struc

Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface

2006-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
From: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:02:20 +0900 > From: Douglas Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface > Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:06:46 -0500 > > > FUJITA Tomonori wrote: