Re: [PATCH 1/2] cciss: fix sysfs broken symlink regression

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Oct 28 2008 - 19:10:06 EST


On Monday, 27 of October 2008, Mike Miller wrote:
> Patch 1 of 2
>
> Regression introduced by commit 6ae5ce8e8d4de666f31286808d2285aa6a50fa40.
> This patch fixes a broken symlink in sysfs that was introduced by the above
> commit also called "cciss: remove redundant code." We broke it in 2.6.27-rc
> on or about 20080804. Some installers are broken if this symlink does not
> exist and they may not detect the logical drives configured on the
> controller.
> It does not require being backported into 2.6.26.x or earlier kernels.
>
> Please consider this for inclusion.
>
> Andrew, do I need to resubmit 2 of 2? Or is that one still in your queue?
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> index 1e1f915..0f367b1 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> @@ -1365,6 +1365,7 @@ static void cciss_add_disk(ctlr_info_t *h, struct gendisk *disk,
> disk->first_minor = drv_index << NWD_SHIFT;
> disk->fops = &cciss_fops;
> disk->private_data = &h->drv[drv_index];
> + disk->driverfs_dev = &h->pdev->dev;
>
> /* Set up queue information */
> blk_queue_bounce_limit(disk->queue, h->pdev->dma_mask);
> --

Is this a patch for bug #11404 or for another regression?

Rafael
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