On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:53:54 -0500
"Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This fixes a problem with the way cciss was filling out the "errors"
> field of the request structure upon completion of requests.
> Previously, it just put a 1 or a 0 in there and used the negation
> of this as the uptodate parameter to one of the functions in the
> block layer, being a block device. For the SG_IO ioctl, this was not
> sufficient, and we noticed that, for example, sg_turs from sg3_utils
> did not correctly detect problems due to cciss having set rq->errors
> incorrectly.
Do we think this problem is sufficiently serious to merit merging
this (largeish) patch into 2.6.23?
I'm thinking "no", but that might be wrong...
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