I have rediffed the patch against 2.6.13-rc5, done a couple of cosmetic
cleanups, and run some tests. Brian King has acknowledged that it fixes the
problems he has seen. Seems mature enough for inclusion into 2.6.14 (or
later)?
Nate's explanation of the changes:
I've attached patches against
Stratus Technologies
Signed-off-by: Nate Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Kai Makisara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 4:08 PM
To: Dailey, Nate
Cc: Brian King; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/st.c: add reference
PM
To: Dailey, Nate
Cc: Brian King; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/st.c: add reference count
and related fixes
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Dailey, Nate wrote:
I'll try porting my changes to a recent kernel, verify that
the bugs I
found are still bugs, and get
last_SRpnt code.
Nate Dailey
-Original Message-
From: Kai Makisara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:12 AM
To: Dailey, Nate
Cc: Brian King; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/st.c: add reference count
and related fixes
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Dailey, Nate wrote:
I'll try porting my changes to a recent kernel, verify that the bugs I
found are still bugs, and get back to you with a new patch.
In the meantime, responses to your comments:
- using a new kref in the scsi_tape structure: I've given this some
Kai Makisara wrote:
The primary change is adding a kref to the Scsi_Tape structure, to avoid
an oops when the tape drive is removed while open. This includes
scsi_tape_get/put routines and scsi_tape_release, and changes to st_open
and st_release. This is all based on the SCSI disk CD reference
Dailey, Nate wrote:
These patches (against a 2.6.9 kernel, Redhat AS 4) for st add a
reference count, and fix a few bugs I hit during testing (administrative
removes and cable pulls with IO in progress).
The primary change is adding a kref to the Scsi_Tape structure, to avoid
an oops when
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