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Re: [PATCH] Re: AMD 53c974 SCSI driver in 2.6: msg#00282

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: AMD 53c974 SCSI driver in 2.6
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Kurt Garloff wrote:

> Guennadi,
>
> I have no clue what's going wrong yet with INQUIRY. I believe it has
> to do with some pci mapping we get wrong.
>
> I deferred the pci mapping to StartSCSI, so we don't create mappings
> for queued SRBs. Some hardware may have IOMMUs and will have limited
> sizes available.
>
> It also allows to clean up some code as we can rely on a mapping being
> created if needed upon StartSCSI. Likewise, I moved pci mapping cleanup
> to SRBdone. Every command should go through here.
> I still need to check the error handling paths, though.
>
> Patch is on top of yours.

Great! Thanks. I, probably, won't have (much) time today, but I'll
continue tomorrow evening.

> Likely, it won't help with the INQUIRY problem :(

Well, probably will have to put lots of dirty debugging printk()'s of
various addresses, etc.

> I still have to get a machine with the DC390 up again.

Yep, testing one / some of those would be needed too - I only have an
onboard 53C974 in a Compaq PC.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Pascalstr. 28
D-52076 Aachen
Germany

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