Re: INITIO scsi driver fails to work properly

[Boaz Harrosh]

On Mon, Dec 17 2007 at 17:03 +0200, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 14:36 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:40:53 +0200
>> Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 17 2007 at 15:05 +0200, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> initio doesn't seem to have a maintainer...
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you able to identify any earlier kernel which worked OK?
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it's a new device?  If you can get the `lspci -vvxx' output
>>>>> for that device we can take a look.
>>>> If I remember rightly the fixes for this went into the scsi tree a couple
>>>> of months ago. The patch is in the -mm tree as well. No idea why its
>>>> gotten stuck as an obvious one liner.
>>>>
>>>> Alan
>>>> -
>>> You mean this one:
>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ba2c270154cc90c9a8bfc45b7bed4cca78c75aaf
>>>
>>> It's only queued for 2.6.25 via scsi-misc.
>>>
>>> I have found another bug. (See other mail in thread). I Will wait for testing
>>> and submit a proper patch.
>> That one yes - which really should have gone straight into the main tree
>> as the initio driver has been broken all the time it sits queued for
>> future patches. It can't make the problem any worse - the driver does not
>> work.
> 
> Well, the change log isn't very committal for "rush me immediately into
> main line" plus, as far as I could dig out, there was no confirmation
> that it actually worked.  This way, I can now say please try the current
> -mm kernel to the bug reporter and we get to see if this fixes the
> problem.
> 
> James
> 
Below fixes a deadly typo. Might as well be included in 2.6.24
Boaz

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