Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Dec 19 2006, Robert Hancock wrote:
> 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..

Can you check whether reverting the above commit makes SMART work again?

-- 
Jens Axboe

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/