On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 14:59 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:16:06 -0600 > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 14:28 +0200, Filippos Papadopoulos wrote: > > > On 1/11/08, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:44 +0200, Filippos Papadopoulos wrote: > > > > > On Jan 11, 2008 5:44 PM, James Bottomley > > > > > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I havent reported "initio: I/O port range 0x0 is busy." > > > > > > > > > > > > Sorry ... we appear to have several reporters of different bugs in this > > > > > > thread. That message was copied by Chuck Ebbert from a Red Hat > > > > > > bugzilla ... I was assuming it was the same problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I applied the patch on 2.6.24-rc6-git9 but unfortunatelly same thing happens. > > > > > > > > > > > > First off, has this driver ever worked for you in 2.6? Just booting > > > > > > SLES9 (2.6.5) or RHEL4 (2.6.9) ... or one of their open equivalents to > > > > > > check a really old kernel would be helpful. If you can get it to work, > > > > > > then we can proceed with a patch reversion regime based on the > > > > > > assumption that the problem is a recent commit. > > > > > > > > > > Yes it works under 2.6.16.13. See the beginning of this thread, i > > > > > mention there some things about newer versions. > > > > > > > > Thanks, actually, I see this: > > > > > > > > > I tried to install OpenSUSE 10.3 (kernel 2.6.22.5) and the latest > > > > > OpenSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0 (kernel 2.6.24-rc4) but although the initio > > > > > drivergets loaded during the installation process, yast reports that no hard > > > > > disk is found. > > > > > > > > Could you try with a vanilla 2.6.22 kernel? The reason for all of this > > > > is that 2.6.22 predates Alan's conversion of this driver (which was my > > > > 95% candidate for the source of the bug). I want you to try the vanilla > > > > kernel just in case the opensuse one contains a backport. > > > > > > > > > Yes you are right. I compiled the vanilla 2.6.22 and initio driver works. > > > Tell me if you want to apply any patch to it. > > > > > > That's good news ... at least we know where the issue lies; now the > > problem comes: there are two candidate patches for this issue: Alan's > > driver update patch and Tomo's accessors patch. Unfortunately, due to > > merge conflicts the two are pretty hopelessly intertwined. I think I > > already spotted one bug in the accessor conversion, so I'll look at that > > again. Alan's also going to acquire an inito board and retest his > > conversions. > > > > I'm afraid it might be a while before we have anything for you to test. > > Can you try this patch? > > Thanks, > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/initio.c b/drivers/scsi/initio.c > index 01bf018..6891d2b 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/initio.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/initio.c > @@ -2609,6 +2609,7 @@ static void initio_build_scb(struct initio_host * host, struct scsi_ctrl_blk * c > cblk->bufptr = cpu_to_le32((u32)dma_addr); > cmnd->SCp.dma_handle = dma_addr; > > + cblk->sglen = nseg; > > cblk->flags |= SCF_SG; /* Turn on SG list flag */ > total_len = 0; We already tried a variant of this here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=120002863806103&w=2 The answer was negative. Although I've saved the patch because it's clearly one of the bugs. James - 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
