This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    cciss: do not attempt to read from a write-only register

to the 2.6.33-longterm tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     cciss-do-not-attempt-to-read-from-a-write-only-register.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.33 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.33 longterm 
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 07d0c38e7d84f911c72058a124c7f17b3c779a65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Stephen M. Cameron" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 09:04:12 +0200
Subject: cciss: do not attempt to read from a write-only register

From: "Stephen M. Cameron" <[email protected]>

commit 07d0c38e7d84f911c72058a124c7f17b3c779a65 upstream.

Most smartarrays will tolerate it, but some new ones don't.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <[email protected]>

Note: this is a regression caused by commit 1ddd5049
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/block/cciss.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/block/cciss.h
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.h
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static void SA5_submit_command( ctlr_inf
         printk("Sending %x - down to controller\n", c->busaddr );
 #endif /* CCISS_DEBUG */ 
          writel(c->busaddr, h->vaddr + SA5_REQUEST_PORT_OFFSET);
-       readl(h->vaddr + SA5_REQUEST_PORT_OFFSET);
+       readl(h->vaddr + SA5_SCRATCHPAD_OFFSET);
         h->commands_outstanding++;
         if ( h->commands_outstanding > h->max_outstanding)
                h->max_outstanding = h->commands_outstanding;


Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.33 which might be from 
[email protected] are

/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33/queue-2.6.33/cciss-do-not-attempt-to-read-from-a-write-only-register.patch

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