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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:32:04 -0600 From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca> To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> Cc: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1 Jens Axboe wrote: > Just noticed that most of the mails I wrote on this thread were > apparently without linux-kernel cc'ed (dunno who removed the cc). So > I'll write a small summary - the problem is that hddtemp includes some > fragile code to check the sense info, and this commit: > > http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=f38621b3109068adc8430bc2d170ccea59df4261 > > broke it. hddtemp expects 14, but it now sees 12. IMHO hddtemp is buggy > and should be fixed, the best option is simply to kill the sense checks > as I think they have little (if any) value. Patch below for that. > > So the problem was never the SG_IO changes, the fact that somebody > noticed the same thing in bugzilla for a 2.6.19-rc6-mm kernel backs that > up. From what I've seen it appears that smartctl has the same problem, it was also reporting the device didn't support SMART.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@...pamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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