Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

[Robert Hancock]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> Just noticed that most of the mails I wrote on this thread were
> apparently without linux-kernel cc'ed (dunno who removed the cc). So
> I'll write a small summary - the problem is that hddtemp includes some
> fragile code to check the sense info, and this commit:
>
> http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=f38621b3109068adc8430bc2d170ccea59df4261
>
> broke it. hddtemp expects 14, but it now sees 12. IMHO hddtemp is buggy
> and should be fixed, the best option is simply to kill the sense checks
> as I think they have little (if any) value. Patch below for that.
>
> So the problem was never the SG_IO changes, the fact that somebody
> noticed the same thing in bugzilla for a 2.6.19-rc6-mm kernel backs that
> up.

From what I've seen it appears that smartctl has the same problem, it 
was also reporting the device didn't support SMART..

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