Re: Inclusion of vmware mptbase regression fix

From: James Bottomley
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 16:49:41 EST


On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:24 +0200, Maarten Bressers wrote:
> Hi Petr,
>
> The patch you posted for the MPT Fusion driver regression with VMware
> 5.5.4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/23/345) was used to fix a Gentoo
> kernel bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185272).
>
> Have you received word from upstream (kernel devs) yet as to whether
> your patch will be included? Or if it will be included at all?

That's a slightly worse version of this patch.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=117432237404247

And the answer's still the same: fix the vmware fusion emulation ...
it's a software thing too.

James


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