Hello Dave , Might be nice to also mention the drivers that were
being complained about . So there respective mantainers can
benifit from your email . Tia , JimL
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> Folks, I just woke up to about a dozen reports of the same 'bug'
> all with patches which are so wrong they stand no chance of application
> by me or Linus, posting here is quicker than me pointing those people
> (and those who may follow them) to the answer.
>
> The recent patch from Christoph Hellwig which kills off
> the last remaining remnants of the old style SCSI error handling.
> The reason these drivers no longer compile due to missing 'abort' and
> 'reset' functions is due to the fact that they need converting to
> new-style error handling.
>
> For instructions on how to do this, read http://www.andante.org/scsi_eh.html
>
> For instructions on how not to this..
> o Do not send me patches that just remove the reset: and abort:
> functions. This gives us no error handling whatsoever.
> o Do not send me patches re-adding the 'missing' reset & abort functions
> to the Scsi_Host_Template struct. This gets us nowhere.
> o Yes, I know ide-scsi, and various other scsi drivers are broken.
> Fix them, or be patient and wait for them to be fixed.
> Dave.
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