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Subject: Re: 3.12.0: sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. with 3w-xxxx driver
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> writes:

Martin> I posted a patch a while back that prevents WRITE SAME being
Martin> issued for controllers that do not pass the commands through to
Martin> disk directly:

Martin>	http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=138252394614920&w=2

Justin> Awesome, thank you!  This patch is over a month old, do you know
Justin> if is currently in mainline? 

Nope. - James?

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering