Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:39:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: FUJITA Tomonori wrote: There are two patches for each driver, removing the non-use-sg code and converting to use the accessors. ... I merged the two. And I finished cleaning up 35 drivers in total.

Re: why does x86 make defconfig build a single, lonely module?

2007-05-15 Thread Simon Arlott
On Tue, May 15, 2007 01:41, Satyam Sharma wrote: On 5/14/07, James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 17:53 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: I guess this is probably the behaviour that James wanted originally? No ... you're still not reading the explanation in the thread:

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 10:01 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:39:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: FUJITA Tomonori wrote: There are two patches for each driver, removing the non-use-sg code and converting to use the accessors. ... I merged the two. And I

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:54:16AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: Er ... I really hope not ... that's exactly how the parisc iommu platform code works ... and why I designed the generic dma mapping this way. The key thing parisc needed was the ability to walk up different busses until it found

[PATCH] aacraid: Correct sa platform support. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMP kernel-2.6.21.1)

2007-05-15 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
As discussed in the bugzilla outlined below, we have an sa based (Mustang) RAID adapter on the system, a Dell PERC2/QC. Affected controllers are HP NetRAID, Adaptec AAC-364, Dell PERC2/QC or Adaptec 5400S. This problem coincides with the introduction of the adapter_comm and adapter_deliver

Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

2007-05-15 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Henrique. Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Francesco Pretto wrote: Ubuntu [1] ang Gentoo [2] bugs opened. Sent a mail to Miquel van Smoorenburg, dev of sysvinit. For all Debian sysvinit issues, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (added to CC). For the

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Simon Arlott
On 15/05/07 13:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: I've already suggested a sysfs attribute - or something equivalent - would be much better. It's just one function that a user might want to run multiple times (e.g. after adding scsi devices?)

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 12:57 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:54:16AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: Er ... I really hope not ... that's exactly how the parisc iommu platform code works ... and why I designed the generic dma mapping this way. The key thing parisc

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:30:50PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: On 15/05/07 13:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote: It's easy to suggest a sysfs attribute. What you've failed to do is suggest the pathname of the sysfs attribute, the contents of it, or the semantics of it (read-only? read-write?

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread David Miller
From: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:57:25 -0400 It might make sense to put it in lib ... however, I don't think many architectures have the problems we have ... specifically certain boxes can have 1 IOMMU, then you really have to know *which* iommu you're

Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers

2007-05-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:37 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:57:25 -0400 It might make sense to put it in lib ... however, I don't think many architectures have the problems we have ... specifically certain boxes can have 1

[PATCH] SCSI: Let users disable SCSI_WAIT_SCAN to be built

2007-05-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 14 +++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.22-rc1/drivers/scsi/Kconfig === ---

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, [ I appreciate you forked the thread and gave it a better subject name, it would be better still if you could maintain the original CC list, thanks. ] On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: I've already suggested a sysfs attribute - or something equivalent - would be

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Satyam Sharma wrote: semantics of it (read-only? read-write? write-only? Well, it _has_ to be write, don't really care if it's read-write or write-only. I would still prefer read-write, but we can go ahead with write-only too. It doesn't really matter, does it? just to be devils

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 5/16/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Satyam Sharma wrote: semantics of it (read-only? read-write? write-only? Well, it _has_ to be write, don't really care if it's read-write or write-only. I would still prefer read-write, but we can go ahead with write-only too. It

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:57:52AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: [ I appreciate you forked the thread and gave it a better subject name, it would be better still if you could maintain the original CC list, thanks. ] I removed the people I didn't think needed to be on the Cc list any more, since

Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Dreier
No, it does matter. Your suggestion doesn't work, because /sys/module/scsi_mod/parameters/ belongs to the module code. To create a new attribute there, you use the module_param() code -- and there's no way to have code called when your parameter is changed. If I'm not misunderstanding