From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754145AbXLELno (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 06:43:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751566AbXLELnh (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 06:43:37 -0500 Received: from web53712.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.39.61]:36648 "HELO web53712.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751502AbXLELng (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 06:43:36 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:43:36 EST DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=GebNUsnahqBXM0fNrIZ8DKivLG8jw2yvR/GOqZQXRN+jrLLQRcqRJ1YqoVeUdoGKPM012HETIaYyQ/fMyd9yJ39uyazR3Pby9Egzsc/tSr3TWU3C5P/IGdMkPhDW30PdNwYtzXBJlJhJg+QBRLGVUTN8Jw+IaQv0DI02qi6ctUI=; X-YMail-OSG: 8x94WocVM1m_L1Qkux92.VuLF_f7XYKZ6r7p4YPDal0NpR5hCIN7ZKSuvcBLdJFIU5Jk4AalbJUPZZsrawFjd.HgPAkv2_HxPfYZPERePWxmX2LD6yMvKhPLe3qO.Jhk64Nbc75o9AJNQaA9otR4HpUzaw-- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 03:36:54 -0800 (PST) From: Gabriele Gorla Subject: Patch submission question [not in the FAQ] To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <602863.12913.qm@web53712.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have submitted a patch for the 3x-xxxx driver on alpha several months ago to both the driver maintainer and the linux-scsi mailing list. I have read all the FAQ and I tried to stick to the instructions to the letter. However the patch has been completely ignored. No reply, no comment, no flames, absolutely nothing... the original email submission is at the end of the email. could anyone please explain what I am doing wrong? thanks, GG [PATCH 2.6.22] 3w-xxxx: Fix bad unaligned accesses on alpha SMP disable packing of the TAG_TW_Device_Extension structure to prevent kernel unaligned accesses when accessing ioctl_wqueue. Fixes smartmontools kernel panic on alpha SMP Signed-off-by: Gabriele Gorla --- --- linux-2.6.22/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.h.orig 2007-09-01 17:49:22.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.22/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.h 2007-09-01 17:49:45.000000000 -0700 @@ -392,6 +392,8 @@ typedef struct TAG_TW_Passthru unsigned char padding[12]; } TW_Passthru; +#pragma pack() + typedef struct TAG_TW_Device_Extension { u32 base_addr; unsigned long *alignment_virtual_address[TW_Q_LENGTH]; @@ -430,6 +432,4 @@ typedef struct TAG_TW_Device_Extension { wait_queue_head_t ioctl_wqueue; } TW_Device_Extension; -#pragma pack() - #endif /* _3W_XXXX_H */ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ