Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
FUJITA Tomonori wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:14:21 +0200 (CEST) Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... And one more update: There is SAS too, ... + You need it + - for classic parallel SCSI hardware, + - for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage,

Re: sata scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:15:22 +0200 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:54:07PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:11:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Let's step back a moment and consider the actual scale and

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

2007-09-15 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:16:35 -0700 Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FUJITA Tomonori wrote: Can you try this patch (against 2.6.23-rc4-mm1)? From 592bd2049cb3e6e1f1dde7cf631879f26ddffeaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:01:18PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: On 14 Sep, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:00:33PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Hi Stefan. Such a patch really calls for some minimal unifacation among the architectures. arch/alpha/Kconfig

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:01:18PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: drivers/Kconfig |4 drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 1589 -- drivers/scsi/Kconfig.lowlevel | 1578 + 3 files changed, 1588

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
FUJITA Tomonori wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:16:03 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or would be for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage, iSCSI, SAS, and more, be OK? scsi-ml has SPI, FC, iSCSI, SAS, and SRP transport classes (SRP is in scsi-misc

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:24:17PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: ... # drivers/Kconfig +source drivers/scsi/Kconfig + menu Device Drivers source drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ source drivers/misc/Kconfig source drivers/ide/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:30:10 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FUJITA Tomonori wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:16:03 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or would be for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage, iSCSI, SAS, and more, be OK?

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:14:21PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- And one more update: There is SAS too, and I forgot 'is' in on a disk which __ accessed via. drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 67 ++- 1

Re: sata scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Stefan, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:25:39 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Rolland wrote: getting too much of No help text available usually results in people no more reading the help text. I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_ help

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: There should first be the lowlevel SCSI, SATA, USB etc. drivers, these drivers should select CONFIG_SCSI, and then the menu offering support for disk, CD,... ... If users who don't need it now enable CONFIG_SCSI (and drivers/ide/ usage is not that uncommon) that's a

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:14:21PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: + You need it + - for classic parallel SCSI hardware, + - for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage, +SAS, or iSCSI, + - for non-SCSI hardware which speaks

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: There should first be the lowlevel SCSI, SATA, USB etc. drivers, these drivers should select CONFIG_SCSI, and then the menu offering support for disk, CD,... ... If users who don't need it now enable

Re: [PATCH 0/4] more gdth patches for your amusement

2007-09-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 16:34 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: This is the rest of the stuff checked into the 'gdth' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git As noted before, I'm fine with Christoph's gdth work superceding mine, or whatever. This was just me

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem. If you want to do it in a really perfect way, help texts aren't the solution.

Re: [PATCH 16/22] advansys: Eliminate prototypes

2007-09-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 08:56 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: Rearrange a lot of the functions in the file to get rid of all the forward declarations. I get a compile failure at this point in your patch sequence: CC [M] drivers/scsi/advansys.o drivers/scsi/advansys.c:72:2: warning: #warning

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem. If you want to

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level providers. Kconfig is a user interface, so perfect is what is best for the

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level providers. Kconfig is a user interface, so perfect is

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to add such options into all menus which contain scsi

Re: [PATCH] scsi: upstream arcmsr-1.20.00.15

2007-09-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:26 +0800, nickcheng wrote: Subject: [PATCH] scsi: upstream arcmsr-1.20.00.15 From: Nick Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ** support ARC1200/1201/1202 SATA RAID adapter, which is named ACB_ADAPTER_TYPE_B ** modify the arcmsr_pci_slot_reset function ** modify the

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Saturday 15 September 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to

Re: [PATCH] aic94xx: fix smartctl utility problem

2007-09-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:58 -0700, Gilbert Wu wrote: Fixed the problem that smartctl -a /dev/some_sata_disk -d ata does not work on SATA device. ( The smartctl v5.38 does need -d ata option.) The aic94xx need to return ATA output register for all ATA commands except ATA Read/Write

Re: command failing at iSCSI disconnect

2007-09-15 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:43:43 -0700 Dave Jiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the latest linus git tree. This is in fileio mode with IOMode=wb. It seems that if I do I/O and then immediately disconnect then the cache sync commands fail. Is this expected behavior or should the connection

Re: sata scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread david
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Paul Rolland wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:15:22 +0200 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:54:07PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:11:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Let's step back a moment and

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Saturday 15 September 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Perfect is in the eye of the beholder.

Poblem solved: Re: PL3507 in daisy-chain - timeouts with disk spinup and slow disks

2007-09-15 Thread Marc Posch
Hi, My problem was a classical false positive: in this case there really seems to have been a problem: I noticed that one of the disks had the problem more often than the other. So I have taken it to the store where had bought it and let them exchange it under warranty conditions, claiming

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

2007-09-15 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Saturday 15 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Saturday 15 September 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan

Re: [PATCH] set supported_mode for lots of llds

2007-09-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
FUJITA Tomonori wrote: The majority of llds don't set supported_mode in scsi_host_template so we get: luce:/sys/class/scsi_host/host0$ cat supported_mode unknown It's harmless but it would be better to get: luce:/sys/class/scsi_host/host0$ cat supported_mode Initiator Given that this is the

Re: [PATCH] set supported_mode for lots of llds

2007-09-15 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:07:10 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FUJITA Tomonori wrote: The majority of llds don't set supported_mode in scsi_host_template so we get: luce:/sys/class/scsi_host/host0$ cat supported_mode unknown It's harmless but it would be better to get: