On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > Guys, I have this marked as needed-in-2.6.24? > From: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8904 > > An updated (by Albert, I assume) version of the fourteen-month-old patch here: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115412002912837&w=2 > > Apparently fixes the bug described at > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8904 > > Needs some TLC. Perhaps urgently. As far as I'm concerned there's no harm in leaving it until 2.6.25; my original version was only a slight performance optimization to prevent excessive querying when the answer is known beforehand. In fact this version of the patch includes only a portion of my original submission. The part in sd.c that exits the retry loop early when there's no medium is missing. But if this really does fix bug #8904 then it should go in sooner. The question is, does it fix the bug? The report mentions only a small amount of testing. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
