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

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:48:45 -0700
From:	Petr Vandrovec <petr@...drovec.name>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
CC:	Maarten Bressers <info@...essers.speedlinq.nl>, 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

James Bottomley wrote:
> 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.

It is already fixed in WS6.0, and I latest Fusion beta has fixed this as 
well.
							Petr


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