Bug 169083 - consider backporting st reference counting changes
Summary: consider backporting st reference counting changes
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: ---
Assignee: Doug Ledford
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-22 20:46 UTC by nate.dailey
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2007-05-18 00:33:41 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
patch for st.c against RHEL4 U2 (7.17 KB, patch)
2005-09-22 20:47 UTC, nate.dailey
no flags Details | Diff
patch for st.h against RHEL4 U2 (418 bytes, patch)
2005-09-22 20:48 UTC, nate.dailey
no flags Details | Diff

Description nate.dailey 2005-09-22 20:46:04 UTC
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Description of problem:
Changes were recently accepted in kernel.org's 2.6.14 kernel to add reference counting to the SCSI tape driver. Without these changes, surprise removal of the HBA connected to a tape drive is problematic. It would be great if Red Hat could backport this functionality.

Discussion of these changes is here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=112058392531041&w=2

I'll try to attach patches against your U2 sources.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.6.9-17.EL

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:

  

Additional info:

Comment 1 nate.dailey 2005-09-22 20:47:33 UTC
Created attachment 119164 [details]
patch for st.c against RHEL4 U2

Comment 2 nate.dailey 2005-09-22 20:48:00 UTC
Created attachment 119165 [details]
patch for st.h against RHEL4 U2

Comment 3 Doug Ledford 2007-05-18 00:33:41 UTC
A slightly different but functionally equivalent version of these changes has
already been incorporated in the RHEL4 kernel.  Closing this bug out.


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