Re: Linux SATA S.M.A.R.T. and SLEEP? -- was [PATCH libata-dev-2.6:passthru] passthru fixes

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:53:37PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> >You probably want this patch as well, at least the first hunk.
> >It fixes a potential memory leak that could cause lock-ups when using
> >hdparm or smartctl/smartd.
> >
> >John
> >---
> >Fix a few problems seen with the passthru branch:
> >
> >- leaked scsi_request on buffer allocate failure
> >- passthru sense routines were refering to tf->command
> >  which is not read in tf_read, instead use drv_stat for
> >  status register.
> >- passthru sense passed back to user on ata_task_ioctl
> >
> >Patch is against the current libata-dev passthru branch.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jeff Raubitschek <jhr@google.com>
> ...
> 
> When I tried that patch recently, smartctl stopped working.
> Reverted.  Works again.
> 
> ??

Interesting...well, take the first hunk and ignore the rest...

Hey, I didn' write it... :-)

John
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John W. Linville
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