linux-kernel - Re: Inclusion of vmware mptbase regression fix

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:49:27 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
To:	Maarten Bressers <info@...essers.speedlinq.nl>
Cc:	petr@...drovec.name, dsd@...too.org, mpt_linux_developer@....com,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inclusion of vmware mptbase regression fix

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:24 +0200, Maarten Bressers wrote:
> Hi Petr,
> 
> The patch you posted for the MPT Fusion driver regression with VMware 
> 5.5.4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/23/345) was used to fix a Gentoo 
> kernel bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185272).
> 
> Have you received word from upstream (kernel devs) yet as to whether 
> your patch will be included? Or if it will be included at all?

That's a slightly worse version of this patch.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=117432237404247

And the answer's still the same: fix the vmware fusion emulation ...
it's a software thing too.

James


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