Hi Bjørn, all On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:41:02 +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:55:01 +0100, Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does the selftest actually work? Artem Bokhan reports that the patch >> fixes the visible error, but that the selftest does not start. I really >> don't understand why, as AFAICS the patch does not change or modify any >> part of the command from smartctl. It only ensures that a command with >> dxfer_len == 0 doesn't cause an attempt to dma_alloc_coherent zero bytes >> (which will fail). > > yep, the selftest works: > > SMART Self-test log > Num Test Status segment LifeTime > LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ] > Description number (hours) > # 1 Background long Self test in progress ... - NOW > - [- - -] > # 2 Background short Completed - 6921 > - [- - -] > > > ... and after completed: > > SMART Self-test log > Num Test Status segment LifeTime > LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ] > Description number (hours) > # 1 Background long Completed - 6922 > - [- - -] > # 2 Background short Completed - 6921 > - [- - -] so, what's up with this fix? Any chance to get it into Debians kernel tree? It's kind of uncomfortable to rebuild the whole kernel, with this applied, when Debian releases a new kernel which happens frequently ;-> Thanks. -- ciao, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
