Re: [PATCH] libsas: support NCQ for SATA disks

From: James Bottomley
Date: Tue Oct 17 2006 - 12:39:00 EST


On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 07:15 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Brian King wrote:
> > This doesn't look like the right fix for the oops you were seeing. The
> > SAS usage of libata has ap->scsi_host as NULL, which indicates that
> > libata does not own the associated scsi_host. I'm concerned you may
> > have broken some other code path by making this change. I think the correct
> > fix may require removing the dependence of ap->scsi_host from
> > ata_dev_config_ncq.
>
> Yep. I had already mentioned this on IRC.

I understand, but right at the moment, my priority is sorting out the
aic94xx driver so that it works with SATA devices. It has become
apparent that there's some need for a bit of code sorting out in libata
to drive intelligent sas controllers, so we can take a look at bugs in
ata_dev_config_ncq() when someone's time frees up to look into the
libata issues.

James



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