On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > - Convert ide-scsi to the new data accessors and cleanup > the !use_sg code paths. > > In old code the driver was trying to translate narrow commands, > if received, to wide commands. This code path still assumed > scsi_cmnd->request_buffer is a linear char pointer. > This means that this driver was broken since 2.6.17.
2.6.17 so it has been broken for the last *six* kernel releases (and 2.6.17 == 18 Jun 2006 so more than a year in the timescale). This raises serious questions whether it is really worth to fix it > As suggested by Christoph Hellwig I set > use_10_for_rw = 1; and use_10_for_ms = 1; > for this device and completely killed the translation. > > Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> anyway patch looks good Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
