[dm-devel] SCSI Sense patch

[bart brooks]

Hi Alasdair,

I take it you are referring to the addition of “bi_error” to the bio data 
structure.
Any idea when an alternate solution will be available, is it still in the 
discussion phase ?

Thanks
  Bart Brooks



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>On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:59:51PM +0000, bart brooks wrote:
> > I have been using for sometime Axboe?s SCSI sense data patches, which 
>make
> > available the sense data in the bio end_io path and the dm-mpath?s
> > hw_handler. They work very nice.
> > When will the show up in RHEL 4, in update 5 or later?
>
>Unfortunately not because (1) upstream has decided not to use them but
>to work towards an alternative way of achieving the same goal; and
>(2) the patches involve a change to an important data structure that
>might cause pre-compiled modules unconnected with device-mapper to cause
>corruption.
>
>Alasdair
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