From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932197AbWDYKyd (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:54:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932187AbWDYKyd (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:54:33 -0400 Received: from mail-gw2.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.42]:29413 "EHLO aimspam2.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932197AbWDYKya convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:54:30 -0400 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1145962689-24643-163-0 X-Barracuda-URL: http://192.168.92.161:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: RE: HEADS UP for gdth driver users Subject: RE: HEADS UP for gdth driver users Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:54:28 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: HEADS UP for gdth driver users Thread-Index: AcZoU7dvQqyUyKgyTAOAak4U8CB8rAAAq5+A From: "Leubner, Achim" To: "Christoph Hellwig" Cc: X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=3.0 KILL_LEVEL=9.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.02, rules version 3.0.11376 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks for your help. I will make the patch, test it and send it out as soon as possible to put it into the 2.6.18 cycle. Thanks, Achim ======================= Achim Leubner Software Engineer / RAID drivers ICP vortex GmbH / Adaptec Inc. Phone: +49-351-8718291 -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@lst.de] Sent: Dienstag, 25. April 2006 12:33 To: Leubner, Achim Cc: Christoph Hellwig; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP for gdth driver users On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:21:00PM +0200, Leubner, Achim wrote: > Is there any news on that? Can we use the scsi_get/put_command() functions for allocating a "struct scsi_cmnd" or should we allocate it with kmalloc() or somehow like that? Or, Christoph, did you already make the second patch for the gdth driver? > We want to bring the gdth driver up to date as soon as possible. Any help is greatly appreciated! Sorry, I didn't have time to look at this yet. scsi_get/put_command() sems ok for now, if you have time to look at this now it would be good if you could look at it. It's too late for 2.6.17 already, but having it early in the 2.6.18 cycle would be very helpful.