Re: [BUG?] GDTH driver not working after upgrade to 2.6.24

[Sven Köhler]

> Yes the gdth driver passed an open hart surgery in kernel 2.6.24. The bad thing
> about it is that all three of the Coders that did that did not have any HW to work
> on. One of them is me. We did cry for tester for a long time but no one came forward.

All i'd like to ask is WHY!?
WHY such a big open heart surgery?
OK, you have your reasons.

> Could you test patches for us? first thing would be to enable debug output patch below.

The machine is still production. It will be replaced by a 64bit system 
with an AACRAID card some time in the future. Then, i could maybe test 
patches on the old machine. But unfortunatly, it's not my machine. It's 
just administrated by me. And i don't know, what's exactly is the future 
of it.

> If you absolutely need a 2.6.24 kernel, + gdth in a production system you could
> checkout the 2.6.23 driver and compile. The old driver will work the same in 2.6.24.
> It will not however even compile in 2.6.25-rcx.

I see. Thanks for the hint. Would be an alternative. Actually, i don't 
need 2.6.24 - but if something security related is fixed, then i'm not 
able to move on to 2.6.24. And i'm using Gentoo. There's not really a 
kernel maintained by the distribution.

> If any one wants to send me a card that uses the gdth driver, I will be very happy
> to debug this card, and return it once I'm done.

I don't think, it's a seperate card, that i could send you. It's some 
19" rack server with such a card on-board, i think.


So it don't see much opportunity for me to test patched and stuff :-(

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