Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/sd.c: fix uninitialized variable in handlingmedium errors

[Avi Kivity]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> block, I suspect.  My DVD trauma was IDE-induced.  Jens is mulling the
> problem - I'd suggest you coordinate with him.
>
> It would be a good thing to fix.
>
> It's moderately hard to test, though.  Easy enough for DVDs and CDs, but
> it's harder to take a marker pen to a hard drive.
>   
If it's in the block layer, perhaps using a device mapper error target 
can help in testing. One could write a table to map an entire partition 
to a logical volume, then replace it with a table that maps a few 
sectors to the error target.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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