linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

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Message-id: <4587F7E4.8000609@shaw.ca>
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..

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